#friend

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#friendship #zoey-redbird #death

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. ↗

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

#death #friends #grief #loss #poetry

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#death #friendship #war #death

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#compassion #enemy #extreme #friend #hard-knocks

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dedication #friends #harry-potter #hermione #j-k-rowling

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#death #death-of-a-friend #death-of-a-loved-one #life-and-death #death

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. ↗

— Windhy Puspitadewi

#friendship

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#cancer #death #friendship #grief #loss

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#death-of-a-friend #death

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president? ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#friends #law #practicing #president #stop