Sad Friendship Quotes

Sad friendship quotes and links to other friendship quotes.

"Life is very insistent; and it always seems to be so when friends sadly leave us." - Sir Alec Guiness

"with friends like these, who needs enemies." - Horace

"Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name." - Ovid

"Many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged." - Cicero

"The courts of kings are full of men, empty of friends." - Seneca

"While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face." - Petronius

"As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times come, you will be alone." - Ovid

"Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends." - Juvenal

"These days flattery wins friends, truth begets hatred." - Terence

"Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day." - Seneca

"Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them." - a Greek proverb

"In happy times our friends are numerous; but if fortune fails, we will have no friends." - Ovid

"Friends stay far away from an unfortunate person." - Seneca

"Just as ants never bend their way to visit empty storehouses, so no friend will visit departed wealth." - Ovid

"I myself am the only friend I have." - Terence

"Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship." - Gertrude Stein

"I have liv'd long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield." - Muriel Spark

"Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there!" - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night 2.4.59–66. 

"The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows for the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.