35 Quotes About Friends Moving Away

There are certain aspects to your relationships that can be influenced by distance. These quotes about friends moving away will encourage you to focus on nurturing the bonds you shared no matter the amount of miles that separate you.

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”

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

“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”

“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.”

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”

“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.”

“Happy trails to you, until we meet again.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”

“Look for the rainbow in every storm, fly like an angel, good-bye my friend. I know you’re gone, you said you’re gone, but I can still feel you here.”

“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”

“Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

“Memories last forever, never do they die. Friends stay together, never say goodbye.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”

“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends. Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“There are no good-byes, where ever you’ll be, you’ll be in my heart.”

“True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry.”

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

“True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he’ll be in your mind and heart forever.”

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

“When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone.”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not. For that which you love in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is cleaner from the plain.”

“You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.”

There are many traits and characteristics that can negatively alter your friendship over time and later deteriorate your bonds.