35 Quotes About Passed Away Friends

When we lose a friend in a tragic accident it can take us by surprise and leave a vacancy in our hearts forever. These quotes about passed away friends help to ease the pain and hurt and remind us of the positive impact they made on our lives.

“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.”

“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?”

“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral.”

“He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”

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

“I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.”

“If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.”

“In my bed, I lie awake, and still thinking. What could have been, if you were still here.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.”

“It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.”

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

“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”

“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.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

“Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.”

“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.”

“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.”

“The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses.”

“There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.”

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

“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”

“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.”

“When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken.”

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

“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure?”

“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”

“You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?”

“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.”

Taking live for granted is difficult to do when you feel like you are losing so much in life.