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Happy Friendship Day 2025: 10 Quotes by famous authors that describe the essence of friendship

TNN | Last updated on - Aug 2, 2025, 01:45 IST
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Happy Friendship Day 2024

Friends are the family we choose to have in our life and we often rely on them more than our family. The first World Friendship Day was proposed in 1958 in Paraguay to honour and celebrate the bond of deep friendships. It has been more than 60 years and the way this day is celebrated has drastically changed - from sending greeting cards to sending messages digitally, posting emojis and Instagram stories, we have come a long way but the essence of friendship remains the same even today!


Though we do cherish having good friends in our lives, sometimes we fall short of expressing our gratitude to them. But friendship has always been an important subject of the literary writers and some of the greatest authors have described this amusing relationship beautifully in literature. Here we list down 10 warm and relevant author quotes about friendship that articulate this special bond. Read on!



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Friendship Day Quote on being non-judgemental

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Happy Friendship Day 2020!

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Friendship Day Quote on deep understanding

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.” —Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Happy Friendship Day 2024!

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Friendship Day Quote On soulmates

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”


― Aristotle

Happy Friendship Day 2024!

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Friendship Day Quote on the language of friendship

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

- Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship Day Quote on equality in friendship

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow

Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead

Walk beside me… just be my friend”

― Albert Camus

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Friendship Day Quote on accepting friends as they are

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

– William Shakespeare

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Friendship Day Quote on the permanence of friendship

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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Friendship Day Quote on protecting your friends

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

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Friendship Day Quote on similar experiences

“Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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Friendship Day Quote on loyalty

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”


― Elbert Hubbard

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