When A Best Friend Dies Quotes

#1. A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you

PES

#2. True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#3. We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.

Albert Belle

#4. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.

Elie Wiesel

#5. And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that's harmless, isn't it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies ... it's just a word.

Terry Pratchett

#6. 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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

E.W. Howe

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

Gore Vidal

#9. We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just ... well, better at it than most.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Emily Dickinson

#11. No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies.
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.)

Irvine Welsh

#12. Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

Lauren Bacall

#13. One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

Fay Weldon

#14. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Bill Nye

#15. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

George R R Martin

#16. Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

Erica Jong

#18. I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

Rooney Mara

#19. What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:"tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".

Randy Pausch

#20. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

#21. I wonder if pain, the kind that doesn't just happen when your cat is killed, or when your aunt dies, but the kind that you have to live with... can it ever be a friend?

Jennifer Lynch

#22. We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

T. F. Tout

#23. I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Jimmy Buffett

#24. And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

Barry McGuire

#25. When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.

Lois P Frankel

#26. A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert