Losing Friendship Quotes:

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

- Ovid

topic: Names, Empty, Losing Friendship

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

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

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Joyful Heart, Judging You

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

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

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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Life, Friendship, Real Friends, Making Friends, Female Friends

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

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

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

- Judy Holliday

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

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

- William Blake

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- St. Jerome

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

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

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

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Loss, Losing Friends, Losing Friendship

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Friendship, Sunshine, Bad Friend, Losing Friends, Fake Friends

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

- Joe Cocker

topic: Friendship, Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

Friendship with oneself is all important.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

topic: Friendship, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Trustworthiness, Loyal Friend

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

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

- Confucius

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

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

- Russell Crowe

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Loss, Losing Friendship, Courageous Women

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

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

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

- Sri Chinmoy

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

- John Lennon

topic: Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

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

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

- Philibert Joseph Roux

source: "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

topic: Real, Father, Men, Impotence, Losing Friends

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

- May Sarton

source: May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.424, Open Road Media

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Losing Friends, Losing Friendship

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

- Aristophanes

topic: Best Friend, Travel, Two, Losing Friends, Death Of A Friend

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Fall, Cat, Eye, Losing Friendship