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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Oct 1, 2025
Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost
One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.
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.
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.
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.
In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
Due to success I started losing friends.
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.
Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it could be financial (leaving a comfortable job and pouring your life savings into a business venture), or it could be emotional (like the feelings of loss and questioning that comes with losing friends and coworkers to climbing accidents).
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
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.
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
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.
The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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