Bittersweet Friendships Lost

Table of Contents

• Death and Loss
• Betrayal and Disappointment
• Emotional Impact and Grief
• Friendship Dynamics and Change
• Isolation and Loneliness
• Friendship as a Reflection of Self
• Philosophical Reflections on Friendship
• Other

Death and Loss

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Tragically, two years ago, we came once more to realize that we had let our guard down. We became lost in our hubris and learned once more the terrible price that must be paid for our failures. In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

We have lost a great president and a great man, and I have lost a great friend,

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them...

So on those happy days of yore Oft as I dare to dwell once more, Still must I miss the friends so tried, Whom Death has severed from my side. But ever when true friendship binds, Spirit it is that spirit finds; In spirit then our bliss we found, In spirit yet to them I’m bound. – Uhland.

All my friends are dead, or else they’re not feeling too good.

I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Betrayal and Disappointment

Betrayed by friendship is not a bad memorial to leave.

You lose friends the second they betray you.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it.

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.

Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in 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.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

Emotional Impact and Grief

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Friendship can hurt! And women aren't wired to forget hurt easily, so the loss of a friend can set off a grieving process, just like any other significant loss or change.

True friends celebrate your success and share your grief!

If i were to lose a friend...then i couldn't die in peace!

In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

As the worst of the grief faded, I had to restore balance in my friendships so they weren’t one-sided.

It can be sad having a friend you’ve admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.

Friendship Dynamics and Change

A friend in power is a friend lost.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Friendships have been lost by being claimed.

One reason we lose friends is that oftentimes we must push off in different directions in order to attain the ultimate visage of ourselves. Comparable to ships sailing across a robust sea, we might share a common bearing with a friend, until we sail away seeking dissimilar ports of call.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Deep friendships are often so very hard to find because this is the fallen place.

Sivbarat referred to a person’s dearest friend, someone so close that to lose them would be like losing a limb.

Isolation and Loneliness

Not all friends know they have lost you.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

people who ran away are friends!

For all I know, some of my close friends could be dead. The only way to find out would be to call them up and talk to them about what's going on in their lives, and I never do that. I think this is true of many guys, even the ones who are not Humor Personalities: we do not view talking about our personal lives as an acceptable activity.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

You needed friends. A dead phone provided no companionship; an empty house no comfort. The latest fashions provided no food, but you could always eat a close friend.

Lack of true friends is often the main complaint of people confronting an emotional crisis in the second half of life.

I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Friendship as a Reflection of Self

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Sometimes the best way to lose a good friend is to go into business with a friend. The reason being you can't end the business day. The friendship always extends beyond the normal eight-hour day.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Friends are made my many acts and lost by only one.

You lose one friend, you pick up another.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you’d never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you’d never really had.

Philosophical Reflections on Friendship

The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake;

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a "bosom friend," or one who "knows his heart.

...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a “bosom friend,” or one who “knows his heart.

Other

...It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way.

I spend most of my time with my friend called “Failure” and I really enjoy it when my best friend called “Discovery” drops by for an occasional visit.

To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony.

The Eternal FriendsThe three eternal friends, Time, Loneliness and Death, met at a small old café.'You won’t last long. I will destroy you at the end,' said Time to Loneliness.'And I will drain every minute and every second in your life.Nothing will give you joy no matter what you do or how hard you try,' Loneliness responded.After a short silence, once Death pronounced its sentence, Loneliness vanished and Time passed.June 20, 2013

Whenever a friend succeeds, something in me dies.

Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

It's always tough to lose a friend under the conditions his life was taken.

I lost a good friend here six years ago,

A friend married is a friend lost.

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Friend after friend departs; who hath not lost a friend?There is no union here of hearts that hath not here its end.

Friend after friend departs; who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts that hath not here its end.

I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

We've lost a tremendous friend in our community.

I gave up trying to find friends at college and befriended dead people between the margins.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

It’s and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn’t matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar. Always have had gotten friends killed.

I’ve never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands - who knows? - of allies.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

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