Top 100 Can't Be Friends Quotes
#1. We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.
Deborah Cox
#2. Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
Daisy Ridley
#3. You can't be friends with yesterday and tomorrow at the same time.
Jovan
#4. I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
Billie Jean King
#5. They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#6. I wouldn't want to fuck you if you had a ten inch knob made of gold and your arsehole was the gate to Nirvana. I can't be friends with you because you're a gibbering twatwaffle, not because I would ever, in a million years, want to shag you. Get over yourself!
FayJay
#7. No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.
Ellen DeGeneres
#8. Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.
Graham McNamee
#9. His eyes blazed, meeting mine. "You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spend your life with," he said his eyes darkening.
Nicole Williams
#10. We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.
Lena Williams
#12. You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with
Nicole Williams
#14. Alyssa: This was a mistake. We can't be friends, Demetri. It won't work.
Demetri: I agree. I want to be so much more than that.
Rachel Van Dyken
#15. Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?
Terry Pratchett
#16. We can't be friends. I can't be friends with you, because I love you, and you've hurt me.
J. Lynn
#17. I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
Aesop
#18. You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way ...
Meg Cabot
#19. I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
Fiona Apple
#20. I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.
Josh Radnor
#21. I made a mistake. Men and women can't be friends. Statistically, impossible. One of the friends is always a little in love with the other or at least sexually attracted to them, and sex ruins friendships.
Codi Gary
#22. Okay, that's just bull." Aurelia snorted. "You can't be friends with someone you have the fuzzies for. Oh sure you can try, but sooner or later the fuzzy will get to you and before you know it, out with the self control and you both will be going at it like bunnies.
Delia Winters
#23. A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you.
Sara Levine
#24. I have friends. I want more from you than that. I'm a selfish guy, Jane. If I can't be your lover, if I can't have all of you, then I don't want anything.
Rachel Gibson
#25. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#26. Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
Rivers Cuomo
#27. Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you
good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
George Eliot
#29. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#30. I like you, Mark, and I hope you'll come see me again. You're a nice guy and you have an old soul. I hope we can be friends.
T.A. Webb
#31. And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.
Linda Ronstadt
#33. Why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.
Sam Altman
#34. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
Holly Black
#35. Your worth isn't dictated by the number of friends you have. You can have zero friends and still be the most amazing, spectacular person in the whole galaxy.
Krista Ritchie
#36. I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#37. I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.
Jeremy Irvine
#38. He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.
Joseph Jackson
#39. Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.
H.W.L. Poonja
#40. Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life.
John O'Donohue
#41. I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#42. You're right; you can't make someone be happy. But I don't see the harm in trying.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
Rumer Godden
#44. She and I have gotten to be kind of friendly, and that's making me very, very happy. Like stupidly happy. Like so-happy-my-friends-can't-stand-to-be-around-me happy.
Jennifer Niven
#45. I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.
Trey Songz
#46. You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.
John Kessel
#47. I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made me and given me the life that I have. And it goes way back to the eighth grade getting cut, your friends telling you that you can't do it, and you telling yourself that you can.
Jake Steinfeld
#48. We can't expect our gay friends to always be single, celibate, and arriving early with the nacho fixin's. And we really need to let these people get married, already.
Tina Fey
#49. I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#50. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
Hill Harper
#51. One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.
Douglas Booth
#52. I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.
Landon Donovan
#53. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.
Alice Hoffman
#54. I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.
Gucci Mane
#55. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#56. I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
E. Nesbit
#57. What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.
Eve
#58. If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.
Jermain Defoe
#59. I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
Natasha Leggero
#60. The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.
Claudia Rankine
#61. It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.
Artie Lange
#62. A Dear John haiku:
This isn't working.
I hope we can still be friends.
Please don't kill my cat.
Tom Dheere
#63. When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.
Peg Bracken
#64. I want so badly to be more than friends with him, but if that's all my broken soul can handle, I'll take it. I don't want this boy out of my life.
Allie Everhart
#65. You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#66. Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
Jan Karon
#67. I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.
Rashida Jones
#68. They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can't be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?
Harlan Ellison
#69. There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
Milla Jovovich
#70. Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
Billy Beane
#71. There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
Edward Hirsch
#72. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
Tina J. Richardson
#73. Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.
Tahereh Mafi
#74. Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.
Townes Van Zandt
#75. The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.
Jennifer Saunders
#76. Some things are worth the danger, aren't they? I don't believe anyone should be allowed to dictate what I read or who my friends are. It gives me pleasure t know that I can thwart the Brotherhood in some small way.
Jessica Spotswood
#77. I've only ever really been in shows of friends, so I don't know exactly what happened. I think I'm incredibly cheap to hire. That can buy some traction. I'm as cheap as it's possible for an actor to be legally.
Richard Ayoade
#78. There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.
Shannon Miller
#79. It's always nice to be able to show your friends and family what it is that you do. I've had their support from the beginning and wouldn't be here without it, so yeah, I do whatever I can to be there with them when they go to see it.
Shawn Roberts
#80. When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are. When you don't feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go, you will carry unease with you. The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?
Eckhart Tolle
#81. Fill your life with trustworthy friends, and don't drop them should you fall in love. They can be your guides should you lose track of what is important.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#82. Just accept it, Ana. You can't stop your friends from loving you. You can't stop Sam from feeling the way he does. You know I admire that you question things, but this - this doesn't have to be one of them.
Jodi Meadows
#83. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
Nicky Wire
#84. Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn.
Evelyn Smith
#85. Can miles truly separate you from friends ... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#86. To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
Ted Allen
#87. Buy my album because ... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.
Darren Criss
#88. My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.
Will Ferrell
#89. Most people think a girl and a guy can't just be friends, there has to be something else going on.
Sarah Dessen
#90. Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.
Eraldo Banovac
#91. Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*
Connor Franta
#92. It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.
Rob Ryan
#93. If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.
Patricia Hamill
#94. This entire time I've been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#95. Those who claim that they can't change because people don't change, are being selfish, ignorant and abusive. They deserve no friends and no love. They deserve to be ignored.
Robin Sacredfire
#96. I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.
Ben Elliot
#97. Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.
Lionel Barrymore
#98. You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.
Matthew Lewis
#99. You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. They can get along, they can be friends for years, they can be hilarious as people, but you don't know if it'll actually work until the cameras start rolling.
Anne Fletcher
#100. It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
Sean Covey
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