Quotes on Losing Friends

there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.