Quotes on Friendship Broken

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

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.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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.