Losing a best friend can be incredibly painful, and finding solace in words can sometimes help ease the burden. Here are 30 quotes about the loss of a best friend:
“Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” – Rossiter Worthington Raymond
“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 Kübler-Ross
“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
“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Khalil Gibran
“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
“No person is ever truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts.” – Richard Fife
“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
“When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” – Unknown
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
“The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not, and death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.” – James Russell Lowell
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Unknown
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Seuss
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
