43 Quotes About Ending Friendships

There are many truths about holding onto the right friendships in your life. These quotes about ending friendships will encourage you to pick the most meaningful relationships in your life over those that create a toxic environment.

“A friendship that can cease has never been real.”

“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

“A special friend is hard to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget.”

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unnecessary as when you were alone.”

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

“Because once upon a time, we were best friends. And, yes, there’s been a lot of bad stuff in between. But none of that matters right now, okay? You need me, I’m there. Any time, any place, anywhere”

“Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

“Don’t let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you’re stupid.”

“Due to success I started losing friends.”

“Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!”

“Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.”

“Everyone leaves footprints in your memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truly remember.”

“Everyone wants 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.”

“Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.”

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”

“Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.”

“I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.”

“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other.”

“I pray to God to remove my enemies from my life, and before I know it I started losing friends. Am just saying no one to be trusted.”

“If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me.”

“If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.”

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.”

“I’m losing friends ’cause people are catching feelings I’m not catching.”

“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”

“Lovers have a right to betray you friends don’t.”

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

“Moments of quiet friendship are what make life-everyone’s life-grand.”

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

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”

“Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”

“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.”

“When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.”

While not all friendships last forever, these seasonal friendships bring a lot of value and lessons to our life.