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
Powerful Friendship Broken quotations
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet;
and two others at first speech are old friends.
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.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
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.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.
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.
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone.
It's an unstable foundation.
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
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.
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.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.
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.
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.
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended;
love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
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.