Lifelong friends are those who’ve been close for many years often from childhood to adulthood.
They share deep connections experiences and provide emotional support. This bond is strong and unique built over time.
If you’re searching for the perfect words to describe your lifelong best friends there’s a great selection of quotes, sayings, captions and messages available.
These can help you express your love for those special friends who’ve been with you through life’s journey.
Even if distance and time separate you the bond with lifelong friends remains strong.
They are a cherished relationship throughout life.
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Lifelong Friends Quotes
Without forgiveness, there is no friendship. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. ~ Linda Grayson.
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul. ~ Steve Maraboli.
While the number of friends may feed your ego, it will never satisfy your heart. ~ Frank Sonnenberg.
Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair. ~ Pierce Brown.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ~ Jim Morrison.
A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.. ~ Steve Lopez.
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ~ Mandy Hale
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting. ~ N. R. Hart
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~ Plutarch
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ~ St. Jerome
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran
The best mirror is an old friend. ~ George Herbert
I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it. ~ Amy Grant.
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Best Lifelong Friends Quotes
The strength of a friendship lies in how well you protect that weak spot and how well you patch it up when something does rip through it. ~ Tamsin Keily
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. ~ Michel de Montaigne
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I’ve had bonds for over 50 years with people. ~ Larry King
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. ~ Samuel Johnson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. ~ Sarah Dessen
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. ~ Jacques Delille
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out. ~ Stephen Chbosky
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~ Mencius
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. ~ Reese Witherspoon
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Top Lifelong Friends Quotes
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the deepest part of love. ~ Thomas Aquinas
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ~ William Hazlitt
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ~ John Churton Collins
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. ~ Dorothy Parker
Difficult times help us understand who is your good friend and who is just a friend. ~ Sukant Ratnakar
Friendship is the fruit of fellowship. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. ~ Mindy Kaling
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~ Frances Ward Weller
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. ~ Sylvia Plath
‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered. ~ A.A. Milne
Where there are friends, there is wealth. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. ~ Euripides
In a friend, you find a second self. ~ Isabelle Norton
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered. ~ A. A. Milne
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. ~ John O’Donohue
True friends fiercely debate issues and still walk away as friends. ~ Frank Sonnenberg
If you run away when you see your friend, you’re not running away from him but from yourself. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. ~ Steven Van Zandt
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. ~ Len Wein
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart. ~ Margot Frank
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton.
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Quotes about Lifelong Friends
I think for me it’s just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I’m pretty solitary. I’m a homebody. So I don’t get out much to get into trouble. ~ Debra Messing
When it comes to books…They’re like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they’re there, even if I don’t check in with them on a regular basis. ~ Vendela Vida
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. ~ Toni Morrison
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. ~ Margaret Bourke-White
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. ~ Irish Proverb
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ~ Mencius
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people. ~ John O’Donohue
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. ~ Anna Taylor
Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. ~ Bill Watterson
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part. ~ Anonymous
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~ Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~ Douglas Pagels
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. ~ Ricky Nelson
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ~ Sarah Desse.
Inspiring Lifelong Friends Quotes
I’m glad I went through the training because I’ve met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity. ~ Jade Hassoune
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~ Albert Schweitzer
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. ~ Heidi Wills
lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one’s well-being as lifelong friends. ~ Jessica Mitford
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ~ Epicurus
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. ~ Charlotte Brontë
It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none. ~ Snoop Dogg
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. ~ Dean Koontz
The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. ~ Nikki Giovanni
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~ Alice Walker
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. ~ Mariella Frostrup
I’m a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. ~ Tony Vlachos
Life is nothing without friendship. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend. ~ Tom Brown, Jr.
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend. ~ Page Smith.
Thoughtful Lifelong Friends Quotes
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity. ~ Santosh Kalwar
Friendship unveils potentials and abilities. ~ John Arthur
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. ~ John Marsden
One honest friend is worth more than a million sycophants. ~ Kevin Ansbro
The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing. ~ Pete Wentz
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. ~ Charles R. Swindoll
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. ~ Oscar Wilde
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. ~ C.J. Langenhoven
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ~ John Holmes
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I’m 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can’t keep that. You can’t have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you’re not an honorable person and if you’re not a respectful person. And that’s exactly what I am. ~ Tony Vlachos
In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox. ~ Barbara Holland
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. ~ Michelle Obama
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. ~ S.E. Hinton
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life. ~ Drake
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I’ve seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. ~ Stephen Leacock
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~ William Penn
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~ Thomas Aquinas.
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. ~ Tennessee Williams.
