Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

No relationship is great all the time.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I've got great kids, I've got a very full life, and while I'm lonely for Steve, I'm not a lonely person.

I think from losing my mother, I appreciate having good people around me.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

We have really no absent friends.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.