This post contains some of the best losing friends quotes.
Losing Friends Quotes
1. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Khalil Gibran
2. “Friends fill time in our lives that will be vacant when they die.” ― Helen Fitzgerald
3. “Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.” ― Alexander Pope
4. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5. “Man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” ― Joseph Roux
6. “You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?” ― J.D. Salinger
7. “You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends.” ― Mark Twain
8. “A friend once asked me; “What if I broke your trust someday”? I replied “Trusting you was my decision and proving me right is your choice.” — Unknown
9. “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” — Gustave Flaubert
10. “A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and hard to forget.” — Unknown
11. “A lost friendship is an enemy won.” — Proverb
12. “And I wonder where the friendship went. What about the days and the memories we spent? Now it feels like I’m being replaced. Now it feels like I don’t know you.” ― Unknown
13. “As we grow up we don’t lose friends. We just learn who our real ones are.” — Unknown
14. “At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” — Unknown
15. “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.” ― John Dos Passos
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16. “Broken friendships are very hard to fix but sometimes we just have to believe that everything will be okay in the end.” — Unknown
17. “But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.” — Edward Young
18. “Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” — Richard Bach
19. “Death is a brutal and chilly companion in the loss of a friendship. Warmth can be found in happy memories, so curl up with them anytime you need to.” — Unknown
20. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” — Leo Buscaglia
21. “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” ― Richard Bach
22. “Don’t make time for people who don’t make time for you.” — Unknown
23. “Don’t think goodbyes are the last meets. It is always the last frame of your face that will be printed in my memories. Make sure you smile and not cry for that frame.” ― Unknown
24. “Due to success, I started losing friends.” — Ace Hood
25. “Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral” ― Kehlog Albran
26. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Khalil Gibran
27. “Every deceased friend is a magnet drawing us into another world” ― Eliza Cook
28. “Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they are your friend. People pretend well. At the end of the day, real situations expose fake people, so pay attention.” ― Trent Shelton
29. “Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.” — John Gay
30. “False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.” ― Christian Nestell Bovee
31. “Friends are forever, you might lose them but you’ll never forget them.” — Unknown
32. “Friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. I lost one last year; he was true blue.” — Unknown
33. “Friends can break your heart too.” — Unknown
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34. “Friends fill time in our lives that will be vacant when they die.” ― Helen Fitzgerald
35. “Friendship causes heartbreak too.” — Unknown
36. “Friendship extends beyond the mortal realm. I can still sense my best friend with me daily, assisting me through thick and thin. He will always be on my side.” — Unknown
37. “Friendship is delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
38. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.” ― Charles Kingsley
39. “Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.” ― Ain Eineziz
40. “Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.” — Sri Chinmoy
41. “Friendship survives death. Memories made will never be forgotten, and they left an indelible imprint on those left behind. Everyone improved as a result of having such a fantastic friend.” — Unknown
42. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi
43. “Hard times will always reveal true friends.” — Unknown
44. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
45. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ― A.A. Milne
46. “I can’t remember all the times I told myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.” ― Counting Crows
47. “I didn’t lose a friend. I just realized I never had one.” — Unknown
48. “I don’t give up on friendship easily, But when I do it’s because they gave up first.” — Unknown
49. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” — Anne Frank
50. “I lost many friends, just because I stopped texting them first.” — Unknown
51. “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom
52. “I miss you. The old you. The new one sucks.” — Unknown
53. “I’m losing friends ’cause people are catching feelings I’m not catching.” — Unknown
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54. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
55. “If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.” — Saint Augustine
56. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ― Joan Powers
57. “If you’re not losing friends then you’re not growing up.” — Unknown
58. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
59. “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.” ― Lewis Carrol
60. “It felt like a huge burden when I lost my friends over the course of time, but then I realized it was not only me. Everyone has experienced this in their life. It is as natural as death, sad but inevitable.” ― Unknown
61. “It hurt because it mattered.” ― John Green
62. “It is a tragedy when a best friend dies too young, and what would have been worse is never meeting them. I am grateful to have had my friends in life and will continue to be their friend in death, honoring them in whatever I do.” — Unknown
63. “It’s difficult to smile through the pain and walk the rest of the route of friendship alone.” — Unknown
64. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” — Nicole Richie
65. “It’s so sad how you were such a big part of my life and now you’re just gone.” — Unknown
66. “Life without a friend is like death without a witness.” — John Ray
67. “Losing a buddy is like losing a sister you never had. A catastrophic event that will alter your life for the rest of your life.” — Unknown
68. “Losing my friend is making me lose my sanity.” — Unknown
69. “Lovers have a right to betray your friends don’t.” — Judy Holliday
70. “Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.” — Sean Covey
71. “Man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” ― Joseph Roux
72. “Maturity is when you realize being apart and still being best friends can be possible.” — Unknown
73. “Memories of friendship will always have a special place in your heart. The best thing you can do is to smile and let it go.” — Unknown
74. “Moving on is simple, what you leave behind that makes it difficult.” — Unknown
75. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey
76. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” — Unknown
77. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
78. “Not even death itself can part true friends.” — St. John Cassian
79. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ― Henry David Thoreau
80. “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.” — Henry David Thoreau
81. “One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.” ― Ron Brackin
82. “One of the saddest things about ending a relationship is losing your best friend.” — Unknown
83. “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ― George Eliot
84. “Our roads may split and drift apart but we’ll always remain friends at heart.” — Unknown
85. “Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.” — Emperor Saga
86. “Remembering all our memories, and it’s times like these that I miss you most, remembering when we were so close.” — Unknown
87. “Saying farewell isn’t something we do. Instead, I’ll remark that I’m looking forward to seeing my friend again every time I hear a phrase, hear a joke, or see an article of clothing that reminds me of them. These are the things that will bind us together even after we die.” — Unknown
88. “Slowly as the years go on, you lose friends you never thought you would.” — Xzavier Zulu
89. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ― Stephen King
90. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” ― Faraaz Kazi
91. “Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” — Unknown
92. “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” ― Flavia Weedn
93. “Some say that time changes. Best friends can become strangers.” — Good Charlotte
94. “Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flash through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to.” — Wiz Khalifa
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95. “Sometimes life is hard to bear, when a friend is just not there.” — Unknown
96. “Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
97. “Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness.” — Unknown
98. “Strangers can become best friends just as easy as best friends can become strangers.” — Unknown
99. “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
100. “The best of friends understand that they were loved for who they were in life and that they will be remembered for their heart in death.” — Unknown
101. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
102. “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.” — St. John Cassian
103. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” ― Seneca
104. “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” — Unknown
105. “The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
106. “The end of a friendship can be painful, but it’s also a sign that it’s time to move on and make room for new relationship.” ― Unknown
107. “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” — St. Jerome
108. “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
109. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elizabeth Foley
110. “The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.” — Gwenda Bond
111. “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
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112. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks
113. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley
114. “The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” ― Moira Rogers
115. “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain, one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” — Heather Brewer
116. “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” — Sir Francis Bacon
117. “The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend.” — Unknown
118. “There are no words in any language to describe a man who has lost his friends.” — Unknown
119. “There is nothing more memorable than the sound of a friend’s laughter. May it muffle the sound of my sobs.” — Unknown
120. “There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.” — Ben Becht
121. “This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.” — William Shakespeare
122. “To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses.” — Publius Syrus
123. “True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for a while. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they’re never dead in your heart.” ― Unknown
124. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” ― Henry David Thoreau
125. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton
126. “True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.” ― Shannon L. Alder
127. “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 Waltz
128. “We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.” ― Unknown
129. “We are neither on good terms or bad. We are no longer anything.” — Jeigo
130. “We can’t feel the loss of a friend until they are apart from us.” — Debolina
131. “We don’t lose friends, we just learn who our real ones are.” — Unknown
132. “We have three types of friends in life: friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.” — Unknown
133. “We laughed until we had to cry. And we loved right down to our last goodbye. We were the best.” ― David Foster
134. “We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed.” — Carlos Wallace
135. “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” — Publius Syrus
136. “We’ll grow up, we’ll move on but we will always be best friends.” — Unknown
137. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
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138. “When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken.” — Chris Lumpkin
139. “When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.” — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
140. “When people die,’ she said softly, ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready to give them up.” — C.A. Belmond
141. “When your best friend becomes a stranger.” — Unknown
142. “When your friends are gone and you only can look at pictures, then remember, that times and people change but that memories stay forever.” ― C.M.
143. “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” — John Taylor
144. “Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” — Unknown
145. “You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?” ― J.D. Salinger
146. “You don’t lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you’re better for it.” ― Mandy Hale
147. “You don’t lose friends. You lose undercover haters. Real friends can never be lost.” ― Unknown
148. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White
149. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” — Paul Sweeney
150. “You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends.” ― Mark Twain
151. “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly-that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” ― Anne Lamott
152. “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.” — Aristophanes
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