Quotes on Lost Friend

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

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

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

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

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

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.