101 Losing Your Best Friend Quotes That Understand Your Pain
Losing a best friend hurts in a different way.
It’s not like other relationships. Best friends know the parts of you that others don’t see. They’ve been there through everything.
Sometimes friendships end suddenly. Sometimes they fade slowly. Either way, the loss feels real.
You might feel like nobody understands what you’re going through. Or maybe you don’t even have the words to explain it.
These losing your best friend quotes might help. They won’t fix everything, but they get it.
Losing Your Best Friend Quotes
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up.” – Anne Lamott
“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
“There’s something about losing a best friend that makes the world feel less safe, less kind, less whole.” – Nela
“A best friend leaves footprints on your heart, and their absence echoes in your soul.” – Nela
“Man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” – Joseph Roux
“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
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
“Losing a best friend is like losing a limb. You can never truly replace it.” – Heidi Butler
“In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.” – Alexander Pope
“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.” – Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey
“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
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
“Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.” – Avis Corea
“I pray to God to remove my enemies from my life, and before I know it I started losing friends. Am just saying no one to be trusted.” – Blaze Olamiday
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
“A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” – Joseph Roux
“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.” – Francis Quareles
“When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.” – Seneca
“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
“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
“Lovers have a right to betray you friends don’t.” – Judy Holliday
“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 have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.” – Unknown
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.” – Saint Augustine
“Everyone leaves footprints in your memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truly remember.” – Nicholas Sperling
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
“Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.” – Unknown
“Fare thee well! and if for ever / Still for ever, fare thee well.” – Lord Byron
“A special friend is hard to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
“I’m losing friends ’cause people are catching feelings I’m not catching.” – Unknown
“Due to success I started losing friends.” – Ace Hood
“Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” – Unknown
“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those, who are friends.” – Richard Bach
“Life is a bus ride, with only so many seats. It took me a long time to comprehend that sometimes people had to leave my life, to make room for the better ones, but once I understood that it became easier to let go, and I was surprised at just how quickly new, interesting people somehow found their way onto my bus.” – Dodie Clark
“When your friends are gone and you only can look at pictures, then remeber, that times and people change but that memories stay forever.” – C.M.
“One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.” – Ron Brackin
“Losing a good friend is never easy, especially when you don’t understand why you lost them in the first place.” – Hannah Baker
“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
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” – Heather Brewer
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” – Jean De La Bruyere
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.” – Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey
“Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.” – May Sarton
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” – Homer
“Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.” – John Dos Passos
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” – Nicole Richie
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face, and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.” – William Penn
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“Sometimes your closest friend is your greatest enemy.” – Jason Fong
“We can’t feel the lose of a friend until they are apart from us.” – Debolina
“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
“I used to know you the best and now I don’t even remember your name.” – Mya Waechtler
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Octavia Butler
“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.” – Carrie Jones
“There are going to be some people who at some point of your life will become your friends. And some friends, who at some point, will become just people.” – Chanda Kaushik
“And I’m losing it all again, my friend, it’s quite a feeling / And it’s so hard to believe in this kind of feeling.” – Carl Noren
“Feels like the end / When you’re closer to losing your dreams / Than losing a friend / Flying blind / I’m shooting into the dark.” – Billy Sherwood
“And young, and happy–why then, my Friend, / Should other friends ask of me, / Tell them I lived and loved and died / In the best of all company.” – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear–a / care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee / from my negligence.” – Khalil Gibran
“Friend of many a season fled, / What may sorrow send / Toward thee now from lips that said / ‘Friend’?” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled, / And left me nought but tears and pain behind! / Like smoke above a flame caught by the wind, / So rose she from my breast and forth she sped.” – Shams al-Din Hafiz
“O’ my stranger friend / I know you are my happiness / My love and my life / But this is not my fate / To meet and see you / Let me live, alone.” – Ehsan Sehgal
“In vain with friendship’s flattering name / Thy passion veils its inward shame; / Friendship, the treacherous fuel of thy flame!” – Mark Akenside
“It’s never a good day to lose a friend. / When you take someone’s life… you lose a part of your own as well.” – Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman
“Nothing hurts worse than losing a friend to bullets, politics, or something personal.” – Matt Nix, Rashad Raisani
“You have my word. Losing a friend’s trust is the fastest way to lose a friend.” – Lauren Faust, Meghan McCarthy
“My world could expand. I could form a long term connection that isn’t with you. And since you put the darkest possible construction on everything, you could end up losing a friend.” – David Shore, Doris Egan
“Troubles come and troubles go / Friendship lasts like a never ending show / I tried to fight it / But you let me see / That my own happineess in life is key.” – Cody Ghiggia
“Comes a stranger who calls your name / Treating you all the same / Because / Sometime stangers are our best friends / Being able to treat like they’re our best kin.” – Cody Ghiggia
“Loosing a friend to a move can feel a lot like losing a friend for good.” – L.L. Owens
“The loss of a loved one or friend can cause a void in a person’s life–a void that may never be filled.” – Tracy A. Phillips
“The death of a friend or a family member is one of the most difficult events a person can experience.” – Tracy A. Phillips
“So I have to let that part of us die / I’m losing a friend to marriage / A friend that I will forever cherish.”
“We had everything covered internally, but every friend turned foe / And the beginning of a beautiful life ended with just one blow.” – Ms.Ly.Ric.
“How could you betray me and act like everything is gravy / When if the shoe were on the other foot, you’d be ready to slay me / I dont know what I’ll call you if I see you again / It may not be a foe, but it wont be a friend.”
“And yet our hearts are sad / that on this mighty road / the friends we meet can set no place to meet again.” – Gary Kowalski
“Losing a jacket was on thing, but losing a friend is a much bigger loss. I’ve learned that when I loan something to someone, I should consider it gone. I never want a possession to take the place of a friendship.” – Mark Matlock
“Losing a friend is losing a part of ourselves.” – Helder Diniz
“I understood his bitterness; indeed I envied it. He was losing a friend, and it hurt.” – Elie Wiesel
“The burden of losing a friend as a pet is very heavy indeed, one that no one should have to endure alone.” – Gary Kurz
