Death Of A Friend Quotes

• 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

  Death, Fate, Bereavement

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2009, Delphi Classics

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Best Friend, Prayer, Inspirational Life

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• For some moments in life there are no words.

  David Seltzer

  Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• 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

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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  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

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• 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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• 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

  Best Friend, Travel, Two

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• A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Loss, Friend Died

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

  Ben Hecht

  Death, Silence, Old Friends

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

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Men, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.184

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Farewell

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Quality, Alive, Remember

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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