These quotes are about the sadness that can sometimes surround friendships. Never lie, and treat your friends well. They are important!
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“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?-Richard Bach
“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.-Anonymous
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that-Ally Condie, Matched
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.-Mahatma Gandhi
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.-Len Wein
“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, Anne of Avonlea
“I’ve had many ‘best friends’ over the years. The one problem with these friendships? They didn’t last.-Unknown
“My best friend… I feel like I’ve lost him forever, and he was like my touchstone.-Reality Bites
“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.-Charles Caleb Colton
“When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.-Unknown
“Promise me, you won’t forget our laughs, our jokes, our smiles, our memories, our friendship.-Unknown
“Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.-Carmen Sylva
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Khalil Gibran
“Do you ever feel like you are not friends with some of your friends?-Unknown
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.-Aristotle
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.-Lucan
“No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the most about yourself.-Kate Hudson
“I miss the days when we all were friends.-Unknown
“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.-Hector Hugh Munro
“Anyone can make you smile or cry, but it takes someone special to make you smile when you already have tears in your eyes.-Unknown
“Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.-Ovid
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.-Oscar Wilde
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.-Mark Twain
“If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.-Kent M. Keith
“Of all the friends I’ve ever met, you’re the one I won’t forget and if I die before you do I’ll go to heaven and wait for you.-Unknown
“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.-Gore Vidal
“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.-Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
“There is no friendship in trade.-Cornelius Vanderbilt
“A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.-Elbert Hubbard
