Loss Of A Friend Quotes by Ninon de L’Enclos, Anatole France, Catherine Wilson, Kenji Miyazawa, Robert Southey, Khalil Gibran and many others.
The loss of friends is a tax on age!
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of ‘love’ and ‘friendship,’ most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don’t find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
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.
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.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
When men’s hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
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.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics – no, I don’t cry.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing…that is a friend who cares.
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.
