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Loss Of A Close Friend Quotes

When dealing with the loss of a close friend, it can be difficult to find the right words to express your feelings. Here are the top 99 quotes to help you through this difficult time.

1. “The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.” – John Cassian
2. “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
3. “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
4. “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
5. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
6. “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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
7. “The best way to mourn, to get through the night, is to find something that is bigger than death, bigger than our own lives, to believe in.” – Ann Hood
8. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
9. “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
10. “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
11. “The death of a friend is a loss that cannot be described.” – Unknown
12. “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Unknown
13. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
14. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
15. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne
16. “May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us.” – Unknown
17. “I have lost a beloved friend—the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and all of his fans.” – Olivia Munn
18. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
19. “The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
20. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
21. “I’ll hold you in my heart until I can hold you in heaven.” – Unknown
22. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
23. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Unknown
24. “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
25. “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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
26. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
27. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
28. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
29. “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
30. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Unknown
31. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
32. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one” – C.S. Lewis
33. “The song is ended but the melody lingers on…” – Irving Berlin
34. “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
35. “The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.” – Clairee Belcher
36. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
37. “In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll
38. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.” – Doug Larson
39. “You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’; it just gets different. Everyday… Grief puts on a new face.” – Wendy Feireisen
40. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri
41. “It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.” – Colette
42. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
43. “One never knows how much a family is bound together until it is broken apart.” – O. Henry
44. “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.” – John Keats
45. “The only cure for grief is action.” – George Henry Lewes
46. “The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” – Thornton Wilder
47. “The worst part about losing a friend isn’t the goodbye. It’s the moment you realize you’re going to have to live without them.” – Unknown
48. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
49. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
50. “The light that shines in the darkness cannot be extinguished.” – Unknown
51. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” – Elbert Hubbard
52. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “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. 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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
54. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
55. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown
56. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
57. “No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle