Broken Friendship Quotes

Broken friendship quotes and links to other friendship quotes.

"The only way to be reconciled to old friends is to part with them for good: at a distance we may chance to be thrown back (in a waking dream) upon old times and old feelings: or at any rate we should not think of renewing our intimacy, till we have fairly spit our spite, said, thought, and felt all the ill we can of each other." William Hazlitt, from “On the Pleasure of Hating.”

"Friends are proved by adversity." - Cicero

"Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own." - Publilius Syrus

"After friendship, you should render implicit belief; before friendship, you should exercise judgment." - Seneca

"Friendships should be immortal, enmities should be mortal." - Livy

"It is an arduous task to make all men your friends; it is enough to have no enemies." - Seneca

"Reconciliations are the cement of friendship. Therefore friends should quarrel to strengthen their attachment, and offend each other for the pleasure of being reconciled." - Maria Edgeworth

"Family, friends, God, whoever loves us, forgives us, takes us in again. They are thrilled by our life, our possibilities, our second chances." - Ann Patchett