Losing A Friend Quotes

“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

“It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime,
drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves, clothing, myrrh, perfumed hair, flirting friends, two strangers' glance; the reflection of the moon, with words like, 'Soon' ... 'do you
want me?' ... '...to lie enlaced' ... 'and sleep entwined' thinking ahead, with thoughts behind...?' Ô, Why!
Why can’t we leave this life slowly?”
― Roman Payne

“As I fall asleep, I think about Ginny and the look she gave me at church, and it makes me feel that familiar sinking in my gut-the way I've felt every time I've seen Nader McMillan in the hall since I was seven. He didn't even need to say anything to me. Just his existence would make me fell powerless and stupid. The difference, I guess, is that he gained his power by humiliating me. Thurns out when someone you actually give a shit about turns on you, it's even more powerful.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“Time goes by so fast and the friends you have sometimes leave, but it doesn't mean you stop loving them.”
― Heather Wolf, Kipnuk the Talking Dog

“So now here we were with David's second big bout against whatever it was, and it had pretty well gotten him. He was taking a lot of morphine for the paid and looked terrible, although the spirit was still in his eyes, weak as it was.

"Do you have any advice for me on my music going forward?" I asked David.

"Just make sure to have as much of you in the recording as you can," he said. "Stay simple. No one gives a shit about anything else."

He tole me to keep it simple and focused, have as much of my playing and singing as possible, and not to hide it with other things. Don't embellish it with other people I don't need or hide it in any way. Simple and focused. That is what I took away. He didn't exactly say that, but I got the message. I have failed to do that in some instances. "Be great or be gon," his famous phrase, choes in my head. I have to remember that for sure. Damn.

So I left the apartment after a hug. It was devastating. He died a week later. He wanted to go. His body was all fucked up and it was not easy. His tenacious spirit would not let him go.”
― Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

“I lit a fire and sat there in my rocking chair. We lit a candle for him. It was as simple as that. I knew that what I had done may have been a catalyst in Danny's death, but I also knew that there was really nothing else I could have done. I can never really lose that feeling. I wasn't guilty, but I felt responsible in a way. It's part of what I do. Managing the band and taking care of the music is very painful at times. It's a sad story. A moment I will never forget, years I can never replace, music the world will never hear, all gone in the turning of a second.”
― Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

“Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths.”
― Alexandra Latos, Under Shifting Stars

“It was never easy to say goodbye to a friend.
Even if that friend had been a monster.”
― Kayla Krantz, Storm Breaker

“The pain of losing a friend is like a tear in the fabric of our heart, a reminder of the beautiful threads of connection that once bound us.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I

“I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.”
― Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

“The hardest pain isn't in holding on to memories—it's in watching the people you once made them with transform into nothing more than distant, fading memories themselves.”
― Advik Sthapak

“In the paved path of friendship that Gopal and I had walked together for so long, we were led astray from each other when finally Yamini made her shining appearance. But I feel no regret at my loss - no. My gains were much loftier.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers