Death Of A Friend Quotes

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.

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.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

We go to the grave of a friend saying,
“A man is dead,”
but angels throng about him saying,
“A man is born.”

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

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.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

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

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

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.