Friendships are not easy to maintain. They take trust and love. And nothing hurts more than losing a friend.
This is a curated sub-category. Check out our full collection of friendship quotes.
Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.Waqar Ahmed
Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.Judy Holliday
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you. Unknown
A friendship that can cease has never been real.St. Jerome
It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….Nicole Richie
There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you. Unknown
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. Oprah Winfrey
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walker
In life we never lose friends, we only who our true ones are.Unknown
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.William Blake
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
It takes years to build trust and just seconds to destroy it.Unknown
True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.Evelyn Loeb
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.Jean De La Bruyere
Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…it’s about who came, and never left your side.Anonymous
Moving on is simple; what you leave behind, that makes it difficult.Unknown
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.Sean Covey
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.J. Willard Marriott
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.Buddha
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.L.M. Montgomery
Trust is like a paper, once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again.Unknown
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.Sri Chinmoy
True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is like a glass ornament. Once it is broken it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.Unknown
The sword wounds the body, but words wound the soul. These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.Zechariah
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it’s not a friendship until after you’ve had a fight.Unknown
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.Alice Duer Miller
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.Confucius
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.H G Wells