Friendship Broken Quotes:

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Weight, Losing Friendship, Friendship Broken

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

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

- Solomon

source: John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Fall, Two Best Friends, Good Friendship

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

- Mark Twain

topic: People, Forget You, Forget, Losing Friends, Losing Friendship

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Sports, Losing Friends, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

- Judy Holliday

topic: Friendship, Betrayed, Lovers, Losing Friendship, Friend Betrayal

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical, Friends Forever, One Friend

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

- Mary Catherwood

topic: Two, Years, Old Friends, Celebrating With Friends, Old Friendship

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

topic: Friendship, Cute, Relationship, Great Father, Life Love Friendship

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Funny, Friendship, Football, Watching Football, Bad Friend

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

- Nicole Richie

topic: Friendship, Betrayal, Long, Stabbing, Backstabbing

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Waiting, My Friendship, Losing Friendship

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

- Sean Covey

source: Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

topic: Friendship, Foundation, Unstable, Losing Friends, Losing Friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Educational, Leadership Development

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, People, Doubted, Wise Buddhist

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you....

- Judy Tenuta

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Enough, Bad Friend, Friendship Broken

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

topic: Mirrors, Old Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship, Loyal Friend

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Wine, New Friendship, Wine And Friends

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Friendship, Thankful, Real, Good Friendship, Good Fortune

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Glasses, Back Together, Losing Friends

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Success, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend, New Friendship, Sound Doctrine

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

topic: Friendship, Memorable, Acceptance, Inspirational Friendship, Inspiring Friends

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- St. Jerome

topic: Real, Losing Friends, My Friendship, Losing Friendship, Circle Of Friends

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Special Friendship

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

- Alice Miller

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Gossip, Friendship Broken, Heart Touching Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Heart, Songs And Friendship, Losing Friends

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

topic: Two, Mind, Body, Making Friends, Bff

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Chance, Making Friends, New Friendship

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Two, Friends Forever, Losing Friendship

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

- Edward Everett Hale

topic: Friendship, Real, Men, Making Friends, Who Your Real Friends Are

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

topic: Friendship, Broken Heart, Work, Friendship Broken

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

- Heather Brewer

topic: Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal, Losing Friendship, Love And Betrayal

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

- Confucius

topic: Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Stabbing, Losing Friends

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Making Friends, Not Friends

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

topic: Friendship, Money, Funny Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

- Freya Stark

topic: Moving, Believe, Thinking, Friendship Broken

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

- Jerry Spinelli

topic: Sorry, Pain, Powerful, Powerful Words, Flipped

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Sacrifice, Broken, Today, Friendship Broken