Death Of A Friend Sayings and Quotes

The death of a friend can feel like losing a limb. Although we’ll always keep them close to our hearts and time will do its best to dull the pain, a piece is missing. While losing a friend is devastating, cherish the good times and memories you shared together to help navigate the grief. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and inspirational death of a friend quotes, sayings, and proverbs to get through tough times.

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
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. John Taylor
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born." Henry Ward Beecher
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
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. David Hume
I had often heard people speak of burying a part of themselves with some friend, parent, or spouse; but I never had cause to reflect upon the truth hidden in what sounded like a maudlin cliché. Life goes on, right? Of course it does. But when you lose somebody who remembers you and what you were in fifth grade, you do bury a part of your life, a part of your history. Harold Ivan Smith
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
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. Seneca
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. Ben Becht
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. Terri Guillemets
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. German Proverb
Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. Flavia Weedn
You cannot stop loving your friend because he's dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know? Jerome Salinger
It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living. C. J. Tulli
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. J. Petit-Senn
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
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct repsonse to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. Julie Burchill
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal--every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open--this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. William Shakespeare
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe
A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off. Thomas Jefferson
Till the first friend dies, we think ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as unknown. Emily Dickinson
Don't be surprised if you grieve more for a friend than you did for a recently deceased relative. The old saying, 'You pick your friends, relatives are thrust upon you,' holds true here. Friends are special people in our eyes because we hold them to be. Friends fill time in our lives that will be vacant when they die. Helen Fitzgerald
Once I attended memorial services; now I plan and give them, each service smaller than the one that preceded it. At each, grief washes over me like a wave; then time passes and I struggle up to breathe again, but lonelier now--another swimming companion has been left behind. Fenton Jones
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. William Shakespeare
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
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. Kehlog Albran
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken. Chris Lumpkin
The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses. Publilius Syrus
Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds. Emperor Saga
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
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever. A.A. Milne
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
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. Anne Grant
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
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
every deceased friend is magnet draw us into another world. Eliza Cook
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. Henri Nouwen
There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains. Hoda Kotb
Death ends a life, not a relationship. Jack Lemmon
Life without a friend is like death without a witness. John Ray
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
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
How come some stories have an ending when they never had a starting? Neeraj Agnihotri
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face—I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. Nicholas Sparks
Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach
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. Rick Prashaw
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras
To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses. Syrus
Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day... unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear. unknown
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. Vicki Harrison