Quotes About Broken Friendships

#1. The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

H.G.Wells

#2. 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.

Freya Stark

#3. Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage.

Pratik Akkawar

#4. 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.

Joseph Epstein

#5. Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Milan Kundera

#6. 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.

Bipasha Basu

#7. This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Lisi Harrison

#8. Such modesty and shame in a whore! Just

Pauline Reage

#9. You're sleeping in my bed."
"Which is more unsanitary than the couch, I'm sure."
"There's never been anyone in my bed but me.

Jamie McGuire

#10. The influenza epidemic eventually claimed more than six million lives, but in the United States, at least, it had run its course by late in the year.

Dean Jensen

#11. Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Saint Francis De Sales

#12. Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

John Quincy Adams

#13. 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.

William, Saroyan

#14. Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Edward Abbey

#15. Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

Ethan Embry

#16. A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

Robin Hobb

#17. If you love someone, you stand by him, forever, no matter what.

Han Nolan

#18. There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

Helen Nearing

#19. Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

Debra Ginsberg

#21. Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions, go over, under, through.

Tina Fey

#22. Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Benjamin Graham

#23. If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Lance Reddick

#24. Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Leslea Tash

#25. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

Ignazio Silone