Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
Old friends are best.
When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
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