Quotes About Friendship Not Lasting

#1. No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

Harold Pinter

#2. The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

Hamid Karzai

#3. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

#4. I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.

Emily Giffin

#5. Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine?

Hilary Mantel

#6. I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society. But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while. Seem to get the attention.

Meg Wolitzer

#7. Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

Alan King

#8. It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

John Henry Newman

#9. Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

Cordell Hull

#11. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Markus Zusak

#12. Let your best be for your friend ...

Khalil Gibran

#13. Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

R.A. Salvatore

#14. All lasting business is built on friendship.

Alfred A. Montapert

#15. The consciousness of Divine friendship in devotion, so far from being impaired, is deepened by holy veneration. The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence; much more this friendship of a man with God.

Austin Phelps

#16. Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

Susan Polis Schutz

#17. That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Samuel Johnson

#18. It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Ford Madox Ford

#19. And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Samuel Johnson

#22. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

#23. Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Pope John Paul II

#24. Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship - love is helping people toward God.

John Piper

#25. Love ... is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.

Nessie Q.

#26. Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.

John

#27. I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.
Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain,
That stymied me from living again.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#28. To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#29. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#30. The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Mick Jagger

#31. The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

Thomas Paine

#32. Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

John Mayall

#33. However long a hug lasts, it doesn't last long enough.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#34. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

Marlin K. Jensen

#35. I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

Peter Riegert

#36. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

William Wycherley