Friendship After A Breakup Quotes

You told me men don't do this."
"Do what?"
She walked around the counter, speaking animatedly. "Two years ago. We were at Firelight, having drinks. Cade and I had split up and you said that men don't mope around after a breakup. You said that men avoid issues, get drunk, and pick up a new girl to forget the old one - but that you don't brood."
Ford held out his hands in disbelief. "How do you remember that? And I'm not brooding."
She folded her arms across her chest and looked at him.
"I know you're my friend," he said. "But please, for once, can you just act like you have a penis?
Because I don't want to talk about this."
She shrugged. "Fine. We'll just sit here and listen to music." She reached for his phone again.
"Have you heard Taylor Swift's new song?"
"No."
"Well, you're going to - on endless repeat until you start talking. ~ Julie James

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. ~ Paulo Coelho

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. ~ Drake

When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path. ~ Peter Adejimi

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. ~ Estelle

Even after the most tragic death, the meanest divorce and the worst breakup, it is possible to heal over time. ~ Itayi Garande

After a breakup, I'll conduct the normal breakup rituals. I'll cut up photographs, erase voice mails, gather his dark concert T-shirts I once slept in and douse them with bleach before I use them to clean my bathtub. ~ Sloane Crosley

After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else! ~ Pawan Mishra

After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself. ~ Linda Alfiori

I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy. ~ Iris Murdoch

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge. ~ Seneca.

Friendship in marriage is its own thing: friendship in a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, or a cappuccino every Sunday morning. Friendship in buying undershirts and underpants. Friendship in picking up a prescription or rescuing the towed car. Friendship in waiting for the phone call after the mammogram. Friendship in toast buttered just so. Friendship in shoveling the snow. I am the one you want to tell. You are the one I want to tell. ~ Elizabeth Alexander

I feel, therefore, I am a fool. ~ Abhaidev

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. ~ Adele

That's life, You know . Dreams come true, just to get ripped away the millisecond you begin to let down your guard and let someone in. And thus the "circle" waits to begin anew. ~ Jacob Daniel Plunkett

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess. ~ Jim George

I don't want you to miss me, just remember that I was once in your life. ~ Shashank Rayal

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. ~ Steve Maraboli

After everything we've done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify. ~ Courtney Milan

When you are happy with someone,
you don't care about people who are unhappy without you. ~ Shashank Rayal

Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup. ~ Peter Bofinger

After all, you can't force a friendship. ~ Ann M. Martin

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly. ~ Brittany Murphy

My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy. ~ Elayne Boosler

You may eventually decide to breakup, and that's fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried. ~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool." ~ Hayley Williams

A breakup is a loss to both parties; not only to he or she who is told that it's over. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines. ~ Lily King

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours. ~ John Leguizamo

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. ~ Socrates

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ~ Mortimer Adler

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing. ~ Greg Behrendt

Usually, a breakup is caused by, or causes, the revelation of one of the parties' true colours. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ~ Sigmund Freud

I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart. ~ John Mark Green

I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out. ~ Selena Gomez

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them. ~ Sarah Morgan

Bradley would do best to remember this is why Taylor Swift wrote more breakup songs than the ones about getting a Happily Ever After ~ Kade Boehme

But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Though we met at the same station,
we were but passing trains;
on parallel lines,
destined to never meet. ~ Timothy Joshua

Not every teenager who is depressed or going through anxiety is crying over some breakup. Some actually have real life problems. ~ Wahid Bhat

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. ~ Patrick Carney

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. ~ Stephen Richards

Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking ~ George Eliot

Friendship is accepting him even though he is not perfect, friendship is not perfection but accepting him after what he has done not what he hasn't done. ~ Darwin Araman Ergina

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet. ~ Laura Dave

It's better to get your heart broken by someone than to break someone's heart. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ~ Wilson Mizner

In some cases, we first need to disappoint or enrage someone, or to break their heart, for them to finally show us their true colours. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. ~ John

I will not subscribe to your switch; the on and off friendship. ~ Xela Ffonrims

New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover, Jake said.
Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it. ~ Sarah Mayberry

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. ~ Albert Camus

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

And things will mellow. And all this love will turn to friendship tinged forever. After that, there will be only accidental meetings, a stray email, a long-lost text. ~ Janice Pariat

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. ~ Khalil Gibran

I always find myself wanting to write, She broke my heart. But it never looks right on the page. I'm a girl, and we weren't lovers, and most people don't call the end of a friendship a break up. But that's the only phrase that seems to sum up how it feels to have lost her. To see her every single day, but not be able to say anything to her, or know anything about her life anymore. ~ Tara Eglington

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Treasure friendship in whatever form it takes. ~ Dawn Camp

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever. ~ Ming-Dao Deng

Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon. ~ Chelsea Handler

All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya ~ Drake

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home. ~ David Popenoe

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn) ~ Vikrmn

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. ~ Warren Christopher

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. ~ Sophie Swetchine

A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it . ~ Linda Wisdom

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious. ~ Confucius

A road to a friend's house is never long. ~ Ann Richards

I wasn't thinking clearly. You never are after a breakup. You have to pretend that everything is fine when secretly you're dying a thousand deaths a minute. ~ Ryan O'Connell

In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you. ~ Michael Chabon

Lovers have a right to betray you ... friends don't. ~ Judy Holliday

To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed. ~ Luke Wilson

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained. ~ Vladimir Putin

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. ~ William Penn

The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together ~ Alex Haditaghi

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy. ~ Rafael Yglesias

What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club? ~ Melissa Kantor

True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship. ~ Steve Maraboli

I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first. ~ Mario Puzo

When someone loves you or have good friendship, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ~ Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs ... the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages. ~ Wade Horn

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle.

There is no point in hating all your exes after a breakup - Because you will end up hurting yourself instead of the person whom you hate. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it. ~ Alexandre Dumas

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. ~ Aelred Of Rievaulx

You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup. ~ Alissa Nutting

He seems happier, lighter, after sharing his story. I feel a little heavier after hearing it, but that's okay. That's how friendship works. You learn to share the weight. ~ Victoria Schwab

What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring ~ Mark Vernon

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to. ~ Alessandro Manzoni

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ~ Georg Brandes

Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended ~ T. S. Eliot

You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. ~ William S. Burroughs