Quotes on Lost Friendship

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

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.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.