A collection of quotes about having someone to talk to in times of trouble by past, present, famous, and unknown authors.
“Sharing your thoughts, fears, and aspirations with someone you trust can truly lighten your heart.” – Unknown
“Never undervalue the power of a good conversation.” – Unknown
“Sometimes, all we need is a listening ear.” – Unknown
“The best kind of friend is one you can sit on a porch with, and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.” – Unknown
“It’s amazing how much better you feel when there’s someone you can talk to.” – Bob Ross
“Solving a problem becomes easier when you have someone to discuss it with.” – Unknown
“In the midst of despair, a trusted voice can be your ray of hope.” – Unknown
“There’s nothing quite like the comfort of sharing your innermost thoughts with a friend.” – Unknown
“Finding someone you can share your deepest secrets with is one of the biggest blessings in life.” – Unknown
“When you can’t look on the bright side, I’ll sit with you in the dark.” – Alice in Wonderland
“Sharing your journey can make the load lighter and the path clearer.” – Unknown
“There is solace in breaking our silence. A strength of spirit when sharing our truth. It all starts with the choice to live on the other side of victim.” – Christine Macdonald
“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it in full.” – Marcel Proust
“A trouble shared is a trouble halved.” – Chinese Proverb
“No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
“Sometimes all you need is a friend to listen with no judgement.” – Unknown
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
“Just knowing there’s someone out there who understands, makes a world of difference.” – Unknown
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” – Unknown
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” – Gina Barreca
“Having someone to love is family. Having somewhere to go is home. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
“There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends.” – Jane Austen
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown
“True friends are always together in spirit.” – L.M. Montgomery
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” – C.S. Lewis
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn
“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Unknown
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” – John Churton Collins
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anais Nin
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” – William Penn
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” – Isabel Allende
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry Van Dyke
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” – Grace Pulpit
“Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.” – Unknown
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” – Edna Buchanan
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” – Frances Ward Weller
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” – Unknown
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
“The memories we make with our family is everything.” – Candace Cameron Bure
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers
“Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” – Harry Morgan
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.” – Alex Haley
“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” – Wanda Hope Carter
“Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” – Andre Maurois
“Family: where life begins and love never ends.” – Unknown
“In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights.” – Brad Henry
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.” – Amalia G.
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” – Unknown
“A family doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to be united.” – Unknown
“Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.” – Unknown
“Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets.” – Joyce Meyer
“Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.” – Ezra Miller
“Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy.” – Jill Scott
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are.” – Unknown
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Eva Burrows
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore
“Family is family.” – Linda Linney
“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” – John C. Maxwell
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” – Peter Buffett
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” – Marge Kennedy
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
