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The death of a friend is a tragic time. Friendship is one of the most important things we have in life. The love and support we get from our friends is invaluable.

They stick by us, see us at our worst, are there in the hard times and do so selflessly. So when we lose one of those friends it can be devastating.

The pain of losing someone so important and special to us cannot be overstated. But how do we deal with the grief that the death of a friend leads to? How do we get by when a loved one is torn from our lives?

It’s at times like this that those suffering such a loss seek comfort. They look to understand what has happened and find some relief in knowing others have gone through a similar bereavement; have felt the same emotions they do. Maybe even be inspired to move on with their lives if the time is right.

That’s where famous quotes and sayings can help. Seeing others expressing their heartache and pain at losing a friend can help make sense of your own mixed up emotions.

Or remind you the agony you’re going through has been felt by others. It helps to know you aren’t alone or the first to have gone through such an awful loss.

So have a look at this large selection of sad, moving on and inspiring quotes about losing a friend. Hopefully they will aid you in recovering and healing from the loss of such an important person from your life.

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Moving On

Short Quotes About the Death of a Friend

These short quotes and sayings sum up losing a friend to death in the most concise and straightforward way.

  • “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one” – Seneca
  • “Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone” – Unknown
  • “We can’t feel the lose of a friend until they are apart from us” – Debolina
  • “To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses” – Syrus
  • “There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence” – Ben Becht
  • “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies” – Gustave Flaubert
  • “The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses” – Publilius Syrus
  • “Death ends a life, not a relationship” – Jack Lemmon
  • “Life without a friend is like death without a witness” – John Ray
  • “This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad” – William Shakespeare

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Sad Quotes About Losing a Friend

Sadness when a friend dies is a given, but knowing others experience the same can help us to feel less alone. These are some heartbreaking and depressing quotes about losing a friend.

  • “Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral” – Kehlog Albran
  • “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity” – Terri Guillemets
  • “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
  • “When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed” – J. Petit-Senn
  • “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same” – Unknown
  • “Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence” – David Hume
  • “You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?” – Jerome Salinger
  • “Don’t be surprised if you grieve more for a friend than you did for a recently deceased relative. The old saying, ‘You pick your friends, relatives are thrust upon you,’ holds true here. Friends are special people in our eyes because we hold them to be. Friends fill time in our lives that will be vacant when they die” – Helen Fitzgerald
  • “There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start” – Shel Silverstein
  • “When people die,’ she said softly, ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready to give them up” – C.A. Belmond

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Inspirational Quotes About Losing a Friend

Whilst nothing can stop the grief and devastation of losing someone close to you it’s important to remember all the good times and happy memories. That’s what the quotes below are focusing on – making sure we don’t forget our friends and the joy they brought us.

  • “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains” – Anne Frank
  • “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil” – John Taylor
  • “True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for a while. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they’re never dead in your heart” – Unknown
  • “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • “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 Waltz
  • “The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends” – John Cassian
  • “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure” – Unknown
  • “Every deceased friend is a magnet drawing us into another world” – Eliza Cook
  • “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death” – Anonymous
  • “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. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly-that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp” – Anne Lamott

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Quotes About the Sudden Death of a Friend

Sometimes we lose a friend unexpectedly. Whilst the death of a friend in any way is terrible when it’s sudden and we lose the chance to say goodbye it can often be even more painful. These quotes look at a sudden loss of a friend and how awful it is.

  • “When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken” – Chris Lumpkin
  • “Death is as casual- and often as unexpected- as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade” – Jim Bishop
  • “Words seem so feeble in moments like these. Life is so precious, and death such a thief. The depth of your pain I cannot comprehend, but I’ll stand alongside you in the darkness, my friend. Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from your arms, but still held in your heart” – John Mark Green
  • “Be grateful every second of every day that you get to spend with the people you love. Life is so very precious” – Mandy Hale
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Quotes About Losing a Best Friend

A best friend is that one person above all else you know better than anyone, that you share everything with and would trust with your life. To lose them is soul destroying.

  • “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day” – Mitch Albom
  • “His death brings new experience to my life – that of a wound that will not heal” – Ernst Jünger
  • “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories” – Leo Buscaglia
  • “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime—not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love” – Unknown
  • “My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love” – Unknown
  • “Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again” – Unknown
  • “You’ll never be forgotten that simply cannot be. As long as I am living, I’ll carry you with me. Safely tucked within my heart your light will always shine; a glowing ember never stilled, throughout the end of time. No matter what the future brings, or what may lie ahead, I know that you will walk with me along the path I tread. So rest my angel, be at peace and let your soul fly free. One day I’ll join your glorious flight for all eternity” – Unknown

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Quotes About the Losing a Friend and Moving On

The death of a friend is always horrific, and time must be left to grieve properly. But we also have to accept that life does go on. These quotes look at the sadness of losing a friend but how we then move on without lives.

  • “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
  • “Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds” – Emperor Saga
  • “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
  • “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day” – Dalai Lama
  • “But fate ordains that dearest friends must part” – Edward Young
  • The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to” – Elisabeth Kubler Ross
  • “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us” – Helen Keller
  • “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost” – G. K. Chesterton
  • “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
  • “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us” – Unknown

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Losing a loved one is arguably the hardest thing most people will go through. The loss of someone special and close to you, be that a friend, partner or family member is devastating.

And the grief we feel all too real. When tragedy like that hits us then we try to find ways to feel better. Maybe seeking understanding or closure regarding that loss, or an attempt to seek out others who share our pain.

That’s where these quotes about losing a loved one can be helpful.

Seeing and reading a new perspective or knowing that others have suffered in the same way can really help. Knowing we’re not alone in our grief can lessen that pain.

Which is why these quotes about the loss of a loved one assist in our feeling better. So many famous people have talked about loss and in some of the most touching and profound ways. Being able to read, share and think about those words helps to heal and accept what has happened.

Below you’ll find a huge selection of loss of a loved one quotes and images. The pictures are created by us and are all our own.

We hope these quotes about the death of a loved one will help to bring you some comfort and solace or offer support and condolences to those suffering a tragic loss.

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Remembering
Bible
Missing
Grieving

Short Quotes About Death of a Loved One

These quotes and sayings are short and simple, coming straight to the point. They quickly sum up the feelings and hurt when having lost of a loved one.

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  • “The death of a beloved is an amputation” – C. S. Lewis
  • “Death ends a life, not a relationship” – Mitch Albom
  • “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love” – Anne L. de Stael
  • “Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones” – Munia Khan
  • “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love” – Kristina McMorris
  • “Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other” – Jandy Nelson
  • “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • “For some moments in life there are no words” – David Seltzer
  • “You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?” – Jerome Salinger
  • “No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply” – Billy Graham
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Inspirational Quotes About Losing a Loved One

Sometimes we need a positive outlook about such an awful event. These quotes look at loss from a different angle and try to find the positives and inspire you to remember the good times rather than focus on your grief.

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  • “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened” – Dr. Seuss
  • “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil” – John Taylor
  • “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form” – Rumi
  • “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them” – James O’Barr
  • “When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind” – Anonymous
  • “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die” – Thomas Campbell
  • “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was” – Hebrew Proverb
  • “Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life” – Anne Roiphe
  • “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Beautiful Quotes About the Passing of a Loved One

Try these beautiful sayings to find some heartfelt and touching words to truly commemorate a lost loved one.

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  • “The dead never truly die. They simply change form” – Suzy Kassem
  • “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality” – Emily Dickinson
  • “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains” – Unknown
  • “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy” – Unknown
  • “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts” – Dorothy Ferguson
  • “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear” – Anonymous
  • “Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever” – Unknown
  • “In life, we loved you dearly, in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, no one else will ever fill” – Unknown
  • “If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back” – Prince
  • “Remember that people are only guests in your story – the same way you are only a guest in theirs – so make the chapters worth reading” – Lauren Klarfeld

Comforting Quotes About Losing a Loved One

In times of loss we seek out ways to feel better. These comforting quotes can aid in coming to terms with a loved one that passed away and remembering them.

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  • “The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted” – Anonymous
  • “Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment” – Unknown
  • “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch” – Jack Thorne
  • “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives” – Rob Liano
  • “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it” – Elizabeth Berrien
  • “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains” – Anne Frank
  • “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us” – Helen Keller
  • “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again” – Maya Angelou
  • “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever” – J.K. Rowling
  • “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know” – Unknown
  • “Everyone copes differently, some cry for the loss of a loved one others smile because they know they’ll see them again” – Unknown
  • “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart” – José N. Harris

Quotes About Remembering the Loss of Someone Special

We should never forget those we have lost and these sayings and quotes help us to find the words to remember and commemorate those no longer with us.

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  • “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss” –
    Cassandra Clare
  • “I should know enough about the loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone – you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence” – Alyson Noel
  • “As long as we live, they too will live, for they are now a part of us, as We remember them” – Proverb
  • “The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them” – Demoustier
  • “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-Exupéry
  • “You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart” – Unknown
  • “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all” – Laura Ingles Wilder
  • “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery” – Dante
  • “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one” – Seneca

Bible Quotes About Losing a Loved One

The bible features many quotes about loss and death, from all different perspectives. These are just a select few to demonstrate how faith and God deal with grief and loss.

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  • “Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted” – Matthew 5:4
  • “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” – John 14:27
  • “If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord” – Romans 14:8
  • “Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you” – John 16:22
  • “For they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection” – Luke 20:36
  • “So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy” – John 16:22
  • “He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds” – Psalm 147:3
  • “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever” – Revelation 21:4

Quotes About Missing Someone You’ve Lost

When a special person in our lives is taken from us it’s natural to miss their presence. There have been lots of sayings and quotes that reflect on missing people from our lives and these are a few of our favourites.

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  • “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part” – Gail Caldwell
  • “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day” – Mitch Albom
  • “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell” – William Penn
  • “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream” – Euripides
  • “No matter where you go you will always be in my heart.” – Anthony T. Hincks
  • The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you” – Dean Jackson
  • “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death” – Unknown
  • “Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful “I miss you” – Richelle E. Goodrich
  • “When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing” – Rosamund Lupton
  • Memories.. let them fill your mind, warm your heart, and lead you through” – Unknown

Quotes About Grieving a Loved One

We can never be prepared for someone’s passing and the grieving process we experience is like nothing else. These quotes look at the powerful force that grief is and how it affects us.

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  • “The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can” – Grey’s Anatomy
  • “Grief is the price we pay for love” – Queen Elizabeth II
  • “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime – not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love” – J. W.
  • “Grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by it’s always changing. It’s a strange thing to say because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone” – Michelle Williams
  • “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love” – Hilary Stanton Zunin
  • “Grief and loss happen to everyone. We’ve all felt misunderstood during times of great pain. We’ve also stood by, helpless, in the face of other people’s pain. We’ve all fumbled for words, knowing no words can ever make things right” – Megan Devine
  • “Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals” – Jason Reynolds
  • “Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity” – Terri Irwin