Best friendship & loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.”

World Left Friendship Loss Behinds Mourning Territory Rejoice Veils Continuous Change

Author:John Taylor

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

Source: Salmagundi

“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.”

Source: Southey's Common-place Book

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

Doe Friendship Loss Enemy Friends Loss Of A Friend

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Friendship Loss Sorrow Dear Thee True Friendship Dear Friend

Author:William Shakespeare

“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”

Remember Friendship Loss Forget Not Sure

Book:Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising

Source: Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising

“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”

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Author:Caleb Carr

“I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.”

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Author:Joe Garagiola

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”

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Author:Marjorie Garber

“The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”

“I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.”

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Author:Mariah Carey

“When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.”

Source: The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff

“William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.”

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Author:Glenn Ford

“When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.”

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Author:Margaret Mahy

“Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

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