Top 99 Quotes About The Pain Of Losing A Friend
Losing a friend can be one of the most painful experiences in life. As we grieve the loss, we may find comfort in the words of others who have also experienced this pain. Here are 99 quotes about the pain of losing a friend:
- “I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.” – Virginia Woolf
- “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
- “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.” – Unknown
- “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
- “The worst part about losing friends unexpectedly isn’t the goodbye. It’s the part where you have to live without them.” – Unknown
- “When you lose a friend, you realize you’ve lost a part of yourself.” – Unknown
- “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.” – Unknown
- “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Unknown
- “The death of a friend is a loss that cannot be replaced by any other.” – Unknown
- “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri
- “We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on.” – Amy Marie Walz
- “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
- “You never really stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.” – Unknown
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
- “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
- “The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
- “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” – Henri Nouwen
- “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
- “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
- “When you’re young, you don’t think about the cost of losing people. It’s only as you get older that you realize how much of your history is gone.” – Unknown
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
- “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” – Harold Kushner
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “When you’re young, you don’t think about the cost of losing people. It’s only as you get older that you realize how much of your history is gone.” – Unknown
- “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “When you’re young, you don’t think about the cost of losing people. It’s only as you get older that you realize how much of your history is gone.” – Unknown
- “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.” – Virginia Woolf
- “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
- “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.” – Unknown
- “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
- “The worst part about losing friends unexpectedly isn’t the goodbye. It’s the part where you have to live without them.” – Unknown
- “When you lose a friend, you realize you’ve lost a part of yourself.” – Unknown
- “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.” – Unknown
- “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Unknown
- “The death of a friend is a loss that cannot be replaced by any other.” – Unknown
- “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri