Friendship: Broken Friendship Quotes

Explore moments when a bond fades, fractures, or ends, and find words that acknowledge disappointment while opening space for growth. These quotes consider trust, boundaries, and the complex emotions that follow silence or conflict. Whether you seek clarity after a falling-out or comfort during a quiet drift, this collection invites reflection without blame. Use it to process change, honor what was meaningful, and recognize lessons that can guide healthier connections in the future.

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"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Before the flowers of friendship faded, friendship faded"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"A friend in power is a friend lost"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden, for toys and small offenses"

Robert Burton, Writer

"Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable"

John D. MacDonald, Novelist

"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have"

Megan Fox, Actress

"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"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

Hilaire Belloc

"The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend"

John Singer Sargent, Artist

"006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters"

Sean Bean, Actor

"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

Mary Tyler Moore

"You can grow apart from people very quickly"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls"

Stacie Orrico, Musician

Stacie Orrico

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can, part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

Shirley MacLaine

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Came but for friendship, and took away love"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

Giacomo Casanova

"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired"

Robert Southey, Poet

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago"

Thomas Hood, Poet

Thomas Hood

"It's quite ironic, I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends"

Peter Hook, Musician

"It is not necessary to have enemies, if you go out of your way to make friends hate you"

Frank Dane, Writer

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