Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound. — Proverbs
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. — William Hazlitt
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Sir Richard Francis Burton
The friendship that can cease has never been real. — St. Jerome
True friendship is rare. Don’t let a little dispute ruin a friendship. — Steve Maraboli
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. — W. Somerset Maugham
For most men friendship is a faithless harbor. — Sophocles
Life is nothing without friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Broken Friendship Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Heart Broken Friendship Quotes
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be. — Pearl S. Buck
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. — H. G. Wells
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on. — Lord Byron
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst. — Frank Frankfort Moore
Trust Broken Friendship Quotes
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
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. — Walter Savage Landor
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. — Nicole Richie
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. — Sri Chinmoy
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
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. — Oprah Winfrey
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. — Scottish Proverbs
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. — Joseph Stalin
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski
It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends. — Cynthia Rylant
Losing Friendship Quotes
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
Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery. — Tupac Shakur
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both — Jaejoong
When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got — Christina Aguilera
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated. — Nancy Reagan
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down. — Robert Wyland
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. — Edward Ramsay
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow. — Sayings
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. — Carlos Castaneda
Broken Relationship Quotes
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. — Jodi Picoult
Friend Betrayal Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. — Judy Holliday
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. — Malcolm X
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. — Tupac Shakur
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. — Shannon Alder
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs. — Maxine Waters
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. — Joan Jett
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process. — Chris Cornell
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people. — Young Jeezy
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
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
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor. — Giambattista Basile
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
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant. — Buddha
Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you. — Judy Tenuta
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation. — Sean Covey
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk — Christopher Moore
The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken. — George W. Bush
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. — St. Francis De Sales
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. — Buddha
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. — Thomas Jefferson
The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living. — Joseph Epstein
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person. — Tullian Tchividjian
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it. — Josh Billings
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never. — Walter Savage Landor
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled. — William Saroyan
[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken. — Gordon S. Wood
Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups. — Bipasha Basu
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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
This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right? — Lisi Harrison
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break. — Robin Wasserman
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. — Saint Francis de Sales
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