20 Relatable Quotes For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Dumped By A Friend
Mourning the loss of a friendship.
When researching quotes for this article, I was trying to find quotes that really captured the heart break of losing a friend. Because that’s what it is: breaking up with a friend is heartbreaking.
When you become friends with someone, truly great friends, you welcome them into your heart. You give them pieces of you. You share hair-ties and secrets and promises of forever. To separate from a friend is to rip out the corner of your heart where they took up space. You are forever altered.
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One thing I found disappointing is that most of the quotes I found about lost friendships were bitter. They were angry and cold. Denying that ever a friendship took place. Saying things like "I’ve never lost a friend, but I realized I never truly had one". What a cruel thing to do to your memory. To distort all of your happiest days into a still picture cut by shards of pain masquerading as hate.
We need to face our hurt feelings with honesty. What we are feeling when we break up with a friend may be anger on the surface, but that is only to cover the hurt we are trying to bury.
The mourning we have planted deep inside of us. In a time of so much loss, don’t add to it by taking back your happy recollections. Don’t rob yourself of your happy thoughts, or one day pixie dust won’t be enough to lift you off the ground. You will be too weighed down by your own resentments.
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Take time to mourn. Don’t forget the happy moments because it hurts less. It’s worth the honesty of the pain, for the future of the memory.
1. Loss of love doesn’t have to be solely romantic.
“Friendships cause heartbreaks too” —Wolftyla
2. Sometimes we grow apart from even our most loyal friends.
“Slowly as the years go on, you lose people you never thought you would.”—Xzavior Zulu
3. If a friend allows themselves to be lost, then be willing to let go.
“You don’t lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you’re better for it.”— Mandy Hale
4. The loss of a friend isn’t the loss of your life.
“Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That is the end of their part in your story.” —Unknown
5. You only let go of people you want to let go of.
“I never lost a friend I wanted to keep”— Walter Winchell
6. If youre always worried about pleasing your friends, you still may lose them. Please yourself first.
“I’ve lost many of my best friends. I am going to satisfy myself now, not my critics, not my friends.”—Eliza Kazan
7. Don’t put energy into a relationship that is already over.
“You’ve got to stop watering dead plants.”—Unknown
8. A friend is apart of you so their loss is like a phantom limb.
“The death of a friend is the equivalent to the loss of a limb” —German Proverb
9. Who will be there in your most fearful moments?
“Life without a friend, is death without a witness” —Eugene Benge
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10. The loss of a friend doesn’t de-value your memories together.
“Losing a friend is a hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too” —Unknown
11. Moving on is act of bravery.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”— Dumbledore Harry Potter
12. Sometimes its not about the lesson, it’s about the heartbreak.
“Losing a best friend is like your heart melting from its core. You can’t do anything buy cry and hope she’ll understand” —Unknown
13. You will never fully lose someone in your memory.
“It takes a day to find a friend, a moment to lose them, and a lifetime to forget them.” —Friend
14. Loss of a friend is as equal a loss as any great love.
“We call that person who has lost his father an orphan, and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here in every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” —Robert Roux
15. Sometimes people block us from seeing ourselves.
“It took losing you to find myself.” —Unknown
16. How strange is it to know every corner of someone’s mind, and then to forget them completely.
“It’s weird how much time you can spend with someone and learn all of their secrets. Then one day it stops” —Unknown
17. The pain is worth the memories.
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” —Unknown
18. Hold onto friends who hold onto you.
“I don’t give up on friendship easily, but when I do its because they gave up first.”—Unknown
19. I will never stop loving you, my friend.
“You broke my heart, but I still love you with all of the pieces.” —Unknown
20. Sometimes all there is, is pure and simple sadness.
“I am very sad because I just lost my best friend in the world.” —Peter Stastny
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Kaitlin Kaiser is a writer who covers astrology, pop culture and relationship topics.