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Losing Friends Quotes

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Interview with Dan Hyman, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2011.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.424, Open Road Media

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335