Quotes About Losing Friends

Quotes about losing friends capture the poignant emotions that arise when connections falter. They reflect the bittersweet reality that friendships, once cherished, can unravel due to various reasons like distance, misunderstandings, or personal growth. These quotes delve into the heartache of saying goodbye to someone who was once an integral part of one’s life, underscoring the pain of separation. Yet, amidst the sorrow, they also convey the resilience of the human spirit and the lessons learned through such experiences. In these poignant words, one finds solace, empathy, and a reminder that loss, while painful, can be a catalyst for personal evolution.

Quotes About Losing Friends And Moving On

Friendship causes heartbreak too. — Unknown

Due to success, I started losing friends. — Ace Hood

Hard times will always reveal true friends. — Unknown

I miss you. The old you. The new one sucks. — Unknown

Losing my friend is making me lose my sanity. — Unknown

To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses. — Publilius Syrus

I didn’t lose a friend. I just realized I never had one. — Unknown

Lovers have a right to betray your friends don’t. — Judy Holliday

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. — Unknown

Sometimes life is hard to bear when a friend is just not there. — Unknown

We are neither on good terms or bad. We are no longer anything. — Jeigo

We can’t feel the loss of a friend until they are apart from us. — Debolina

I lost many friends, just because I stopped texting them first. — Unknown

A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and hard to forget. — Unknown

Sometimes life is hard to bear, when a friend is just not there. — Unknown

We’ll grow up, we’ll move on but we will always be best friends. — Unknown

Moving on is simple, what you leave behind that makes it difficult. — Unknown

I asked God Protect me from enemies and I started losing friends. — Unknown

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? — Unknown

I’m losing friends ’cause people are catching feelings I’m not catching. — Unknown

You don’t lose friends. You lose undercover haters. Real friends can never be lost. ― Unknown

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may head the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ― Robert Southey

You meet people who forget you. You forget the people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends. ― Mark Twain

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

We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed. — Carlos Wallace

The friendship that can cease has never been real. — St. Jerome

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. — Edward Young

Don’t make time for people who don’t make time for you. — Unknown

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies. — Gustave Flaubert

Friends are forever, you might lose them but you’ll never forget them. — Unknown

Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part. — John Gay

Slowly as the years go on, you lose friends you never thought you would. — Xzavier Zulu

One of the saddest things about ending a relationship is losing your best friend. — Unknown

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love. — Publius Syrus

No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list. — Unknown

The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend. — Unknown

At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life. — Unknown

Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation. — Sean Covey

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

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. — Sir Francis Bacon

Some say that time changes. Best friends can become strangers. — Good Charlotte

As we grow up we don’t lose friends. We just learn who our real ones are. — Unknown

Our roads may split and drift apart but we’ll always remain friends at heart. — Unknown

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. — Sri Chinmoy

I don’t give up on friendship easily, But when I do it’s because they gave up first. — Unknown

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ― Khalil Gibran

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend. — Saint Augustine

It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. — Nicole Richie

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

Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness. — Unknown

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

Remembering all our memories, and it’s times like these that I miss you most, remembering when we were so close. — Unknown

Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty. — Unknown

Broken friendships are very hard to fix but sometimes we just have to believe that everything will be okay in the end. — Unknown

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost. — Unknown

An insincere friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. — Buddha

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

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

A lost friendship is an enemy won. — Proverb

Friends can break your heart too. — Unknown

When your best friend becomes a stranger. — Unknown

If you’re not losing friends then you’re not growing up. — Unknown

We don’t lose friends, we just learn who our real ones are. — Unknown

It’s so sad how you were such a big part of my life and now you’re just gone. — Unknown

Strangers can become best friends just as easy as best friends can become strangers. — Unknown

Friendship is delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. — Waqar Ahmed

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. ― Henry David Thoreau

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have three types of friends in life: friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. — Unknown

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

Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? — Richard Bach

Losing Best Friends Quotes

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

An insincere friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ― Buddha

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker

The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt. — Gwenda Bond

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ― John Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost. ― Ain Eineziz

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

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

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

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

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

Heartbroken Quotes About Losing Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King

It takes a minute to find a special person; an hour to appreciate them; and a day to love them. But it takes an entire lifetime to forget them. — Unknown

Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation. — Sean Covey

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

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm, but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.— Randal Keith Milholland

Friends are like stars: they come and go, but only the true ones glow.— Unknown

People come, people go — they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.— Nicholas Sparks

The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.— Jonathan Harnisch

Be grateful for every second of every day that you get to spend with the people you love.— Mandy Hale

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.— Charlie Brown

Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.— Emery Allen

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello — hello to a new adventure.— Ernie Harwell

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.— Anne Lamott

People come and go; situations rise and fall; it’s all preparation for better things.— Iyanla Vanzant

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.— Paulo Coelho

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one – Seneca

Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone – Unknown

We can’t feel the lose of a friend until they are apart from us – Debolina

To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses – Syrus

There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence – Ben Becht

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies – Gustave Flaubert

The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses – Publilius Syrus

Death ends a life, not a relationship – Jack Lemmon

Life without a friend is like death without a witness – John Ray

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad – William Shakespeare

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral – Kehlog Albran

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity – Terri Guillemets

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 our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed – J. Petit-Senn

Famous Quotes About Losing Friends

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same – Unknown

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence – David Hume

You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know? – Jerome Salinger

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start – Shel Silverstein

When people die,’ she said softly, ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready to give them up – C.A. Belmond

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains – Anne Frank

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil – John Taylor

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

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

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

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

When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure – Unknown

Every deceased friend is a magnet drawing us into another world – Eliza Cook

Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death – Anonymous

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

When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken – Chris Lumpkin

Death is as casual- and often as unexpected- as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade – Jim Bishop

Words seem so feeble in moments like these. Life is so precious, and death such a thief. The depth of your pain I cannot comprehend, but I’ll stand alongside you in the darkness, my friend. Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from your arms, but still held in your heart – John Mark Green

Be grateful every second of every day that you get to spend with the people you love. Life is so very precious – Mandy Hale

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day – Mitch Albom

His death brings new experience to my life – that of a wound that will not heal – Ernst Jünger

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories – Leo Buscaglia

We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime—not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love – Unknown

My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love – Unknown

Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again – Unknown

You’ll never be forgotten that simply cannot be. As long as I am living, I’ll carry you with me. Safely tucked within my heart your light will always shine; a glowing ember never stilled, throughout the end of time. No matter what the future brings, or what may lie ahead, I know that you will walk with me along the path I tread. So rest my angel, be at peace and let your soul fly free. One day I’ll join your glorious flight for all eternity – Unknown

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

Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds – Emperor Saga

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

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day – Dalai Lama

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part – Edward Young

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

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us – Helen Keller

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost – G. K. Chesterton

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning – Carrie Jones

As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us – Unknown