Top 100 Friends Die Quotes
#1. Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Donald Hall
#2. Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#3. Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.
Wovoka
#4. Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.
Octavius Winslow
#5. Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
Agnes De Mille
#6. I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
#8. I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.
Willie Aames
#9. Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
Lionel Blue
#10. Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
Lee Daniels
#11. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
Erica Jong
#12. We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.
David Levithan
#13. Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.
Michael Crichton
#14. I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.
C.B. Cook
#15. Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
Amelia Barr
#16. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,
Muriel Barbery
#18. Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
Erasmus Darwin
#19. YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE ...
... they go away.
... strangers die.
... people you know fairly well die.
... friends die.
... people murder people, like in books.
... your own folks can die.
So ...
Ray Bradbury
#20. We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.
Saint Augustine
#21. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.
Paul Baribeau
#22. The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.
Sebastian Junger
#23. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#24. When I die ... may there be friends who will grieve for me, who will carry our shared joys and pains, who will carry my memory.
R.A. Salvatore
#25. I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons
#26. It's so odd, isn't it? That know we are all going to die, & that we have these difficult passages to go through with our parents & friends, & other people we love & care about who are also going to die, & yet it's almost as if we are never really ready.
Kris Radish
#27. For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.
Christina Rossetti
#28. Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#29. Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
Sinclair Lewis
#30. Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato?
Rain Oxford
#31. I've very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out, and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.
Selena Gomez
#32. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#33. When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!
Suge Knight
#34. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...
Edna O'Brien
#35. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
#36. If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
Gregory Nunn
#37. A cause is a cold thing to die for. To die to protect the people you count as friends, people you have laughed with, and grown to cherish, that is a gift.
Andrea K. Host
#38. In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
#39. One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they die. The wars go on and on and on, then they end. People say they will love each other for the rest of their lives, and they don't.
Pete Hamill
#40. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
#41. When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'
Matthew Perry
#42. We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ...
Eleanor Farjeon
#43. Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.
Townes Van Zandt
#44. Jake assumed that he would be the one to die. Marco had seen this instantly. He wasn't arguing in favor of the awful future we'd seen. He was arguing for the life of his best friend.
K.A. Applegate
#45. We win some, but we lose many. We lose a lot. We lose our friends and we lose our family. In the end we lose everything. No matter who's with us, we always die alone. When you fight your battles, whatever battles you fight, it's always going to be about life.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
Daniel Berrigan
#47. This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?
Lauren Dane
#48. this is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal
J.K. Rowling
#49. We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.
Alain Resnais
#50. moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to
Julian Fellowes
#51. You don't read, you don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.
Atticus Shaffer
#52. I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment.
Joe Haldeman
#53. Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.
R.A. Salvatore
#54. People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you
Bella Pollen
#55. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
Danielle Steel
#56. LUKE Friends, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears. Wish not we had a single fighter more, If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To make our planets proud. But should we win, We fewer rebels share the greater fame. We all have sacrific'd unto this cause.
Ian Doescher
#57. Do you realize how many kids I'll be raising if all my friends and my brother and his wife all die in a tragic cruise ship disaster?
Mary Calmes
#58. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#59. (Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#60. My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,
Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die,
I can fly, my friends ...
Freddie Mercury
#61. The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and
Bram Stoker
#62. And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
Nicole Krauss
#63. There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
Pete Hamill
#64. With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.
Len Wiseman
#65. Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."
E.B. White
#66. But that isn't why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or ... " She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.
Jennifer Niven
#67. Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.
Matthew Arnold
#68. There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
Ben Hecht
#69. I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past - the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers - or from the future - the possibilities we would be switching off.
Matt Haig
#70. A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
Richard Baxter
#71. Truth can win you many enemies, but it also rewards you with some die-hard friends
Alok Jagawat
#72. I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists ... Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries ... As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.
Comte De Lautreamont
#73. I never thought I'd die alone. Another six months I'll be unknown. Give all my things to all my friends.
You'll never set foot in my room again. You'll close it off, board it up. Remember the time that I spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall? Please tell mom this is not her fault.
Blink-182
#74. This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.
Pittacus Lore
#75. They're my best friends, I'm going to know them until the day I die.
Melina Marchetta
#76. We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
L.M. Montgomery
#77. They call it Second Lifetime Syndrome, and it happens when a sorcerer watches her family and friends age and die around her. - China
Derek Landy
#78. Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.
Mitch Albom
#79. Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
Caitlin Doughty
#80. SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT; WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE. HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN, FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME, OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID, DAY'S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON, THEY ARE ALL VANISHING, FLEEING TO FABLES, CANNOT BE MOORED. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ransom Riggs
#81. Keep your friends close and your beneficiaries closer...Poor words to live by. Even worse to die by.
Brandy Heineman
#82. Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
Jennifer Archer
#83. Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy?
Jeremy Courtney
#84. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
#86. When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson
#87. It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends.
Sarah J. Maas
#88. I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.
Celia Rivenbark
#89. To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.
Michel De Montaigne
#90. So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
Stevie Smith
#91. I know some things
I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something
more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
Veronica Roth
#92. I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor
#93. So, what now? We're friends?
Yeah. If friends could be in love, but not together. In sync, but out of touch. Willing to die for each other, but unable to trust.
Rachel Vincent
#94. My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.
James Lee Burke
#95. When you are about to die a montage of your family and friends fast forwards until your mind flashes quickly to the person you love and what you last said to them. If it was loving, you die in peace. Life was and always will be about love.
Maria Dorfner
#96. I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.
Carrie Ryan
#97. I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or another. Take a position, have a point of view and fucking live or die with the consequences or don't write.
Kenyon Farrow
#98. They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you'd even die for them, is a great subject.
Adrian Hodges
#99. There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.
Marcus Luttrell
#100. Courage, friends,' came Prince Rilian's voice. 'Whether we live or die Aslan will be our good lord.
C.S. Lewis
