47 Quotes About Friendship Ending

Friends bring our life a lot of lessons. Bringing an end to some of your biggest and closest friendships can leave a permanent mark on our lives. These quotes about friendships ending will bring the encouragement and reminders that we need to be grateful for these individuals.

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”

“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 part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.”

“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”

“Being physically away does not mean you have to finish a friendship, on the contrary it can be much stronger.”

“Being physically away from a friend does not mean the friendship is going to be affected, if two people really appreciate each other then nothing and nobody can push them apart.”

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

“Distance cannot matter – ours is a friendship of the heart.”

“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”

“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”

“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 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.”

“Friends are connected heart to heart. Distance and time can’t break them apart.”

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

“Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

“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’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. ”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

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

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“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. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons–something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter.”

“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.”

“The distance between you and me disappears with us.”

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

“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.”

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

“There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.”

“Though miles may lie between us, we’re never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count the miles, it’s measured in the heart.”

“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.”

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

“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. ”

“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.”

“You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.”

Whether you are moving away or moving on, ending a friendship is not easy. Finding the right way to say goodbye can make an impression on how you look back to the special moments you shared.