50 Powerful Quotes and Lyrics About Friendship to Use as Photo Captions

In life, we've discovered there are few things more significant than the power of friendship.

Friends share our joy with us, cheer us up when we're down and hear us out, regardless of whether or not we deserve it. Those special people who've stuck with us through thick and thin and will always have our backs are worth celebrating. Chances are you already have more photos of your best friends in your camera roll than you can count, and you don't need an excuse to share them—especially with the help of these great quotes and lyrics about friendship as captions.

For that friend you value more than anything else in the world:

"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend."

-Socrates

 

For the ones who can always soothe a broken heart:

"Spend more time with my friends. I ain't worried 'bout nothin'."

-"thank u, next," Ariana Grande

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For the friends who accept everything you are:

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

-Elbert Hubbard

 

For the people who keep you ever optimistic:

"The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship."

-Joseph Addison

 

For making a new bestie:

"And soon enough, you're best friends."

-"Fifteen," Taylor Swift

 

For when your greatest joys have been with treasured friends:

"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."

-Samuel Johnson

 

For when your friends are your safety net:

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

For the companion who always keeps you feeling safe:

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

-Helen Keller

 

For the people you've come to call family:

"We're a family. we stick together."

-Woody, Toy Story

 

For the throwback pic of a friend you're dearly missing:

"Friends, though absent, are still present."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

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For the friends who accept you, faults and all:

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

-Bernard Meltzer

 

For the friendship that makes you feel certain in the face of adversity:

"So of one thing I am sure, it's a friendship so pure."

-"Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," Led Zeppelin

 

For instantly knowing you've found a kindred spirit:

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

-Rabindranath Tagore

 

For the group of people who are your everything:

"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."

-Henry Drummond

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For the ones who never doubt who you really are:

"Here's a toast to my real friends. They don't care about the he-said, she-said."

-"This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things"

 

For the powerful connection that was forged over time:

"What's small turned to a friendship, a friendship turned to a bond, and that bond'll never be broken, the love will never get lost."

-"See You Again," Wiz Khalifa

 

For when having good friends makes everything else unimportant:

" I found out that the secret to life is friends: best friends."

-Ninny Threadgoode, Fried Green Tomatoes

 

For the ones who always listen:

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."

-Ed Cunningham

 

For wearing matching beads with your most trusted friends:

"So, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it."

-"You're on Your Own, Kid," Taylor Swift

 

For the person who's always managed to keep you on track:

"A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

-Lois Wyse

 

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For when you've gone on a gifting spree:

"I'd rather spoil all my friends with my riches."

-"7 rings," Ariana Grande

 

For knowing you'll all fight to stay friends for eternity:

"Make it last forever, friendship never ends."

-"Wannabe," Spice Girls

 

For the friend who's practically family:

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

-Euripides

 

For when your best friend is your everything:

"Ooh, you make me live. Ooh, you're my best friend."

-"You're My Best Friend," Queen

 

For that simple and true friendship:

"Video games, you pass me a note. Sleeping in tents. It's nice to have a friend."

-"It's Nice to Have a Friend," Taylor Swift

 

For the one you do absolutely everything with:

"You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship."

-Mike Wazowski, Monsters, Inc.

 

For when your day would be a thousand times better with your friends around:

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

-Winnie the Pooh

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For the stunning shot to conclude a perfect day:

"Watch the sun set with best friends from a rooftop."

-"Growing Up," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 

For the pals who somehow like you just the way you are:

"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones."

-John Lennon

 

For flaunting your extra whimsical friend group:

"The magic of friendship is what it's all about."

-"Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song),," My little Pony: Equestria Girls

 

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For the friendship that's the best thing in your life:

"There's nothing like this friendship with you."

-"Communion," Maverick City Music

 

For the ones who get to hear all of your deepest, darkest secrets:

"We'll tell no one except all of our friends."

-"How Did It End?," Taylor Swift

 

For when an old friendship blooms all over again:

"Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure."

-Anthony D. Williams

 

For when you have friends who truly get you:

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

-Seneca the Younger

 

For when you and a friend are up to no good:

"The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me."

-"peace," Taylor Swift

 

For the one you'd drop everything for:

"And if you need a friend to pick you up, I'll be around."

-"Crooked Smile," J. Cole

 

For the pic with your fellowship:

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

-Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

 

For celebrating your found family:

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

-Jacques Delille

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For the one who supported you in your toughest times:

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

-Walter Winchell

 

For finding your twin flame:

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

-Aristotle

 

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For when your friends get all of the wonderful and lovely things they deserve:

"Karma takes all my friends to the summit."

-"Karma," Taylor Swift

 

For knowing you still have plenty as long as you have your friends:

"No man is a failure who has friends."

-Clarence, It's a Wonderful Life

 

For the ones who let you be the weirdo you are:

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

-Jim Morrison

 

For the friendship that's been constructed over time:

"This been buildin' up, I guess this friendship like Home Depot."

-"MONOPOLY," Ariana Grande and Victoria Monét

 

For the people who make you feel like a million bucks:

"Where there are friends there is wealth."

-Plautus

 

For when your friendship has stood the test of time:

"How evergreen, our group of friends."

-champagne problems," Taylor Swift

 

For the one's who've supported you through every step of your journey:

"Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had."

-Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

 

For the heartfelt reunion with an old friend:

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

For when time with friends heals everything:

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

-Henry Van Dyke

 

For the friend who's changed your life in more ways than one:

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

-George Eliot

 

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