This post contains some of the best one sided friendship quotes.
One Sided Friendship Quotes
1. “A betrayal in a friendship is a good opportunity to think about what qualities you wish in a friendship.” — Ashley Hudson
2. “A one-sided friendship brings exhaustion, and there’s no one deserves to be sucked dry.” — Euginia Herlihy
3. “A one-sided friendship is like having a car that only goes in one direction; eventually, it will drive itself away from you.” — Anonymous
4. “An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.” — E.W. Howe
5. “Any relationship (friend, romantic, or business) that’s one-sided isn’t one; it’s a one-way street headed in one direction, nowhere. — T.F. Hodge
6. “Ask me once, just once, say you want me back, you want to be my friend again. I’ll come running back to you.” – Unknown
7. “Be a better friend to yourself by refusing to settle for something that makes you feel any less worthy than you know you are.” —Lucy Smith
8. “Be very selective when it comes to choosing friends. People now a days don’t know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.” – Unknown
9. “Being betrayed by a friend can leave you feeling doubtful of other friendships.” —Ashley Hudson
10. “Being the only one to try to maintain a friendship sucks and is exhausting.” — Jillian Baker
11. “But for the moment, I really just need some space.” — Margo T. Rose
12. “Choose people who choose you.” —Jay Shetty
13. “Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn’t over yet, or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?” — Brit Bennett
14. “Cultivation requires input from willing participants.” — T.F. Hodge
15. “Don’t ignore the effort of a person who tries to keep in touch, it’s not all the time someone cares.” – Unknown
16. “Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they are your friend. People pretend well. At the end of the day, real situations expose fake people, so pay attention.” – Unknown
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17. “Everyone has their own life, but what matters is whether or not they make time for you in theirs.” —Lucy Smith
18. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.” —Unknown
19. “Fake friends show their true colors when they don’t need you anymore.” —Unknown
20. “Forgive yourself for the blindness that let others betray you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad.” —Unknown
21. “Friends are meant to support us, not drain us.” —Sarah Regan
22. “Friends are proved by adversity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
23. “Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.” — Alphonse Karr
24. “Friendship is a relationship between two people who hold mutual affection for each other; friendly disposition or feeling for another; the bond of friends.” – Unknown
25. “Friendship is a two way street not a one way road.” – Unknown
26. “Friendship is a two-way street.” —Jillian Baker
27. “One-sided friendships can be built on foundations of loneliness, insecurity, and anxiety.” —Lucy Smith
28. “Friendship is everyday, not just when it’s convenient for you.” – Unknown
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29. “Friendship is supposed to be a two-way street where both parties have equal rights and equal obligations” — Nato Lagidze
30. “Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.” – John Wooden
31. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came…stayed by your side, and never left you when you needed someone the most.” – Unknown
32. “Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…it’s about who came, and never left your side.” – Unknown
33. “Friendships are not easy to maintain. They take trust and love. And nothing hurts more than losing a friend.” —Unknown
34. “Friendships should not be one-sided. Because one of the two people will be left feeling empty.” — Shanita Rogers
35. “Goodbye, old friend. I was bound to see your true colors sooner or later.” —Unknown
36. “Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends.” —Unknown
37. “I decided to put as much effort into contacting you as you do with me – that’s why we don’t talk anymore.” – Unknown
38. “I didn’t lose a friend. I just realized I never had one.” —Unknown
39. “I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed that you turned into everything you said you’d never be.” —Unknown
40. “I‘m going back to my parrot head friends.” — Jimmy Buffett
41. “I’m controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me.” — Oscar Levant
42. “I’m never shocked when people let me down nowadays. I just hate the fact that I put myself in a position to be put down in the first place.” —Unknown
43. “I’m not ignoring you, I’m waiting to see if you’ll make the effort for once.” – Unknown
44. “If a friendship is off-balance, one person takes up too much space, and the other person takes up too little.” — Perri O. Blumberg
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45. “If a text conversation leaves you feeling frustrated and dissatisfied, it may be worth considering whether this friendship is fulfilling you or simply draining you.” —Perri O. Blumberg
46. “If one person doesn’t seem to care about the well-being of their friend, then they might as well be called a friend of convenience.” —Nato Lagidze
47. “If someone makes you feel drained and used, they’re not your friend.” —Sharonness
48. “If the feelings are mutual the effort will be equal.” – Steve Maraboli
49. “If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative! Know when to close the account.” — Christie Williams
50. “If you don’t feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.” — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
51. “If you have to constantly put in the effort to be friends with someone, that friendship isn’t worth it.” – Unknown
52. “It can be one of the hardest things in the world to lose your best friend.” —Unknown
53. “It doesn’t matter if it was a relationship or a friendship. When it ends, your heart breaks.” —Unknown
54. “It hurts to remember how close we were back then.” —Unknown
55. “It hurts when the person that made you feel special yesterday, makes you feel so unwanted today.” —Unknown
56. “It take two givers to keep a friendship strong. One sided friendship can’t last long. Be grateful for the true friends on the journey.” – Matt Brown
57. “It takes both sides to build a bridge.” —Fredrik Nael
58. “It takes two givers to keep a friendship strong. One-sided friendship can’t last long. Be grateful for the true friends on the journey.” — Matt Brown
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59. “It takes two people to start and maintain a friendship, but only one to end it.” —Mary Duenwald
60. “It took me way too long to realize that you shouldn’t be friends with people who never ask how you’re doing.” —Steve Maraholi
61. “It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” —Nicole Richie
62. “It’s just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it’s like that with friendships.” — Andrew Sean Greer
63. “It’s really hard sometimes to say goodbye to a friend you love, especially if you’ve been friends for a long time.” —Lucy Smith
64. “It’s sad how you were such a big part of my life and now you’re just gone.” – Unknown
65. “Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.” – Unknown
66. “Keeping you close is some people’s way of preventing you from shining on your own.” —Lucy Smith
67. “Know the difference between those who stay to feed the soil, and those who come to grab the fruit.” —Unknown
68. “Life is kind of like a party. You invite a lot of people…a few who stay to help you clean up the mess…they are the only ones who matter.” – Unknown
69. “Losing a friend hurts, even when you chose to end it.” —Crystal Raypole
70. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
71. “Love is a two-way game. You cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you; better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you, and that will be right with you.” — Auliq Ice
72. “Love those who will love you when you have nothing to offer but your company.” – Unknown
73. “My biggest mistake ever is thinking that people actually cared for me as much as I do for them, but in reality, it’s almost always one-sided.” —Unknown
74. “My head wanted to be alone, while my heart was begging for a friend.” – Unknown
75. “Never get too attached to anyone unless they also feel the same towards you, because one sided expectations can mentally destroy you.” – Unknown
76. “No breakup—even a nonromantic one—is easy.” —Sarah Regan
77. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey
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78. “No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless good effort is made on both sides to keep it so.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
79. “Not everyone deserves to be considered a friend.” —Perri O. Blumberg
80. “Not only one-sided love but one-sided friendships also do exists.” — Rupali Negi
81. “Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.” – Unknown
82. “Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot I only exist when you need something.” —Unknown
83. “Oh, you expected me to keep in contact with you, but not vice-versa? My bad, I forgot that’s how friendship worked.” – Unknown
84. “Once you end the friendship, you’ll need to stop reaching out.” —Crystal Raypole
85. “One of the most important aspects of friendship is trust and reliance.” —Lucy Smith
86. “One sad truth of life is that friendships don’t always thrive, no matter how much time, energy, and love you put into them.” —Crystal Raypole
87. “One sided friendship and two sided love… always gives you a lot of pain, nothing more than that!!!” – S. Pandey
88. “One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.” — Marcelene Cox
89. “One way to tell if you’re really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward.” — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
90. “One-sided friendship and two-sided love always give you a lot of pain, nothing more than that!” — S. Pandey
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91. “One-sided friendships can be built on foundations of loneliness, insecurity, and anxiety.” — Lucy Smith
92. “One-sided friendships can leave you confused and hurt.” —Crystal Raypole
93. “One-sided friendships never last.” — Anonymous
94. “One-sided friendships take and never truly give.” —Perri O. Blumberg
95. “Our deepest fear is going space crazy through loneliness. The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes.” — Holly
96. “People will hold your hand through the darkness but then let go when they find the light.” – Unknown
97. “Perhaps, that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them.” — Scott Wilbanks
98. “Remove yourself from one-sided friendships. Are there people in your life that love having you as their friend, but don’t necessarily show up as yours? Remember that it’s privilege for someone to hold space for you and be in your life. Remove anyone who isn’t appreciating and reciprocating love, support and friendship.” – Unknown
99. “Remove yourself from those one sided friendships where you are the only one putting in the effort.” – Unknown
100. “Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves… then they are surprised when they are alone.” —Unknown
101. “Simple things like cutting you off, blowing off what you have to say, talking over you, and so on, are all signs of a one-sided friendship.” — Sarah Regan
102. “Some friendships aren’t healthy from the beginning.” —Ashley Hudson
103. “Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.” —Unknown
104. “Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind, I smiled and said ‘I used to.’” —Unknown
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105. “Sometimes one of them thinks they’re really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn’t feel that way.” — Andrew Sean Greer
106. “Sometimes people won’t understand how you feel until it happens to them, until they experience the pain.” – Brigitte Nicole
107. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.” —Taylor Swift
108. “Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.” – Unknown
109. “Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.” —Unknown
110. “Sometimes, your circle decreases in size, but increases in value.” — Anonymous
111. “Spend your time on those who love you unconditionally. Don’t waste it on those who only love you when the conditions are right for them.” —Unknown
112. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” —Unknown
113. “Stop putting an effort into those who show no effort towards you. There’s only so much you can do before you’re wasting your energy and time.” – Unknown
114. “Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die.” — Alice Hegan Rice
115. “Thanks for saying you’ll always be there for me and then selectively deciding when to be there for me.” – Unknown
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116. “The end of a friendship doesn’t mean one or both friends are bad people or bad friends… it simply means the relationship wasn’t working.” —Carly Breit
117. “The important thing to remember… is that one-sided friendships can be toxic, and once you recognize it, don’t feel guilty if you have to end it.” —Sarah Regan
118. “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
119. “The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.” – Unknown
120. “The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.” — Maya Angelou
121. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.” —Unknown
122. “The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.” —Jennifer Senior
123. “The one-sided friendship – It was all the game of priority, it was an unbalanced friendship, were, it was you above everything for me, and, it was I below anything for you, and now we broke to the state, were, everything, anything and nothing sounded similar.” – Piyushkuhad
124. “The saddest thing about betrayal is it never comes from your enemies.” —Margaret Atwood
125. “The worst kind of pain is getting hurt by the person you explained your pain to.” —Unknown
126. “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship” — Sir. Francis Bacon
127. “There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t jump a puddle for you.” —Unknown
128. “There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage- it’s two-sided.” — John Wooden
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129. “These kinds of one-sided friendships can negatively impact your wellbeing because they are energy drains instead of energy sources.” —Perri O. Blumberg
130. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody”. — Stephen Chbosky
131. “Toxic friends don’t want what is best for you, so they’re not understanding or empathetic when you’re struggling.” —Perri O. Blumberg
132. “Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.” —Unknown
133. “Unless we earnestly desire its continuance, we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.” — Alice Hegan Rice
134. “Watering artificial flowers will not make them grow. Stop pouring your energy into one-sided relationships.” — John Mark Green
135. “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” — C.S. Lewis
136. “What’s the point of having friends if you can’t trust them?” —Nato Lagidze
137. “When someone walks out of your life, let them. There’s no use in wasting your time on people that leave you. What you make of yourself and your future is no longer tied to them. Yeah, you may miss them. But remember that you weren’t the one that gave up.” – Unknown
138. “When the universe gives you a crash course in vulnerability, you will discover how crucial and life-preserving good friendship is.” —Mary Duenwald
139. “When you finally realize that one-sided friendships are too draining and it may just be time to move along.” – Unknown
140. “When you quit texting people first, you realize who is making all the efforts.” —Unknown
141. “You always see those people that have been best friends for years and years, and it seems so effortless. That is something to strive for.” —Jillian Baker
142. “You can’t hang out with negative people and expect a positive life.” —Unknown
143. “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
144. “You likely feel tired being around this friend because all they do is talk about themselves; they’re using up your energy, and you feel tired and exhausted.” —Sarah Regan
145. “You shouldn’t be always available for someone who doesn’t even ask how you are doing.” – Unknown
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