Friendship is a relationship that occurs between two or more people, whereas love is a relationship between only two people. Love can also be a romantic relationship between two people. Actually, both love and friendship are two different relationships but both are strong feelings. A person feels incomplete without both.
Here are some inspirational quotes about love and friendship which will help you to know about the importance of both in your life.
Best Quotes About Love And Friendship
1. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” ― Orson Welles
2. “Love and friendship exclude each other.” ― Jean de la Bruyere
3. “On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.” ― Martin Seligman
4. “Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.” ― George Foreman
5. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” ― Ann Landers
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6. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
7. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” ― Nicholas Sparks
8. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” ― Friedrich Nietzsch
9. “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” ― Irving Stone
Inspirational Love and Friendship
10. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel
11. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” ― Jean de La Fontaine
12. “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” ― Elif Shafak
13. “No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” ― Kahlil Gibran
14. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.” ― Osho
15. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” ― Bruce Lee
16. “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
17. “Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.” ― Oscar Wilde
18. “True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
Friendship and Love Quotes
19. “Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.” ― Emily Giffin
20. “Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.” ― Charles Caleb Colton
21. “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” ― Michel de Montaigne
22. “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.” ― Charlotte Brontë
23. “Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ― Jane Austen
24. “Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.” ― Timothy Keller
25. “You’re the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.” ― J.K. Rowling
26. “No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” ― Francois Mauriac
27. “Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.” ― Neil Gaiman