57 One Sided Friendship Quotes When You’re Tired Of Trying
One sided friendships drain you.
You’re always the one reaching out. Always the one making plans. Always the one who cares more.
At first you make excuses for them. They’re busy. They’re going through something. They’ll come around.
But eventually you realize they’re just not showing up. And you’re exhausted from carrying a friendship by yourself.
These one sided friendship quotes validate what you already know. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is stop trying so hard.
One Sided Friendship Quotes
“A betrayal in a friendship is a good opportunity to think about what qualities you wish in a friendship.” — Ashley Hudson
“A one-sided friendship brings exhaustion, and there’s no one deserves to be sucked dry.” — Euginia Herlihy
“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
“An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.” — E.W. Howe
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” — Francis Bacon
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces.” — Richard Burton
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” — Confucius
“Friendship is delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
“A friend to all is a friend to none.” — Aristotle
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” — Bette Midler
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” — Samuel Butler
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school.” — Muhammad Ali
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” — Thomas Aquinas
“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell
“Some friends are like shadows: they’re only around during the sunshine.”
“It hurts the most when the person who made you feel so special yesterday makes you feel so unwanted today.”
“Friendship is not about whom you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it.”
“You never cared, and I never mattered.”
“I was always there when you needed me. But when I needed you, you vanished.”
“One-sided friendships are like standing in the rain hoping someone will hand you an umbrella.”
“I used to think I couldn’t lose a friend. Now I realize I never really had one.”
“You don’t lose friends. You just learn who the real ones are.”
“I text you first because I miss you. If I don’t text you, we don’t talk. That’s the truth.”
“I’m tired of reaching out. If you cared, you’d reach back.”
“I stopped talking to you to see if you’d notice. You didn’t.”
“I’m not mad. I’m just done.”
“It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.”
“I kept showing up for someone who wouldn’t even notice if I disappeared.”
“I gave you pieces of me you didn’t even notice you were breaking.”
“You were my person. I was just your option.”
“I stayed when I should’ve walked away.”
“I learned the hard way that I can’t always count on others to respect my feelings—even if I respect theirs.”
“Sometimes walking away is the only way to protect your peace.”
“I’m not bitter. I’m just better at choosing who I give my energy to.”
“You taught me how to be alone, and for that, I thank you.”
“I outgrew people who had no intention of growing.”
“I stopped watering dead plants.”
“I’m learning to love people from a distance.”
“Not everyone deserves a front-row seat in your life.”
“I’m not chasing anymore. If you want me in your life, show me.”
“I gave too much to someone who never gave enough.”
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.”
“I miss the old us, but I don’t miss being the only one who cared.”
“I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.”
“I didn’t lose a friend. I realized I never had one.”
“I cared too much, and you cared too little.”
“I was there when no one else was. You were gone when I needed you most.”
“I let you go, not because I stopped caring, but because you did.”
“I’m slowly learning that some people are only meant to stay in your heart, not in your life.”
“You were a chapter. I was the whole book.”
“I loved you like a friend. You loved me like a convenience.”
