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To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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
Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.
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.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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.
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Friendship with oneself is all important.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
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 one mind in two bodies.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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