It takes more than a single element to create and maintain a happy and successful friendship. These quotes about friendships ending capture some of the difficulties that are experienced.
“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 unecessary 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.”
“Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage.”
“Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.”
“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.”
“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
“Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.”
“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 hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.”
“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.”
“I used to know you the best and now I don’t even remember your name.”
“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.”
“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had.”
“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.”
“Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“True friendship never questions what it costs you.”
“We can’t feel the lose of a friend until they are apart from us.”
“When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.”
“When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.”
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”
For many, friendships have standards that they must abide by to ensure they remain successful and equal.
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