Throughout the confusion, frustration, and general ups and downs of life, our friends are the ones who keep us sane. The ones who pull all nighters with us at the library even if it's just to provide moral support, the ones who sneak us our favorite cookies from the dinning hall when we can't make it to dinner, and the ones who still love us after we spilt beer all over their new shirt that hot mess of a Friday night we had two weeks ago.
For when you're feeling super sentimental about how great your bestie is, here are 13 inspiring friendship quotes that will have you running to give them a hug in no time.
- “To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” —Aristotle
- "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." —Oprah Winfrey
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is it one of those things that give value to survival.” —C.S. Lewis
- "There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends." —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “As we grow up we realize it’s less important to have a ton of friends and more important to have real ones.” —Taylor Swift
- “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” —Charles Robert Darwin
- “You are my person.” —Grey’s Anatomy
- “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favour of the kinds of the world.” —Thomas Alva Edison
- “Best Friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life.” —Nathanael Richmond
- “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” —Eustache Deschamps
- "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." —Oscar Wilde
- "No friendship is an accident." ―O. Henry, Heart of the West
