Friendships are like seasons, some arrive unexpectedly, while some fade away like the morning stars. While it hurts to see friends walk out of your life, like seasons, some leave behind warmth and joy while others leave behind a sweet-bitter longing.
Through these seasons, the best you can do is explore the bitter sweetness of letting go and the treasures friendships leave behind.
50 Friends Coming And Going Quotes
1. “I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.” ― Louise Hay
2. “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.” — Benjamin Franklin
3. “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.” — William Butler Yeats
4. “Sometimes, the people you meet briefly leave the deepest footprints.” — Paulo Coelho
5. “Every friend teaches you something, even the ones who hurt you.” — Unknown
6. “Let gratitude bloom in every corner of your being for the gifts of friendship.” — Eknath Easwaran
7. “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie
8. “A thousand miles apart, yet as close as two heartbeats.” — M.A. Alberts
9. “Friendship is the bridge between two minds, a passage over troubled waters.” — Senca
10. “I wouldn’t say I have bad friends. I just have friends who make bad decisions that I end up being part of.” — Unknown
11. “Friends come and go like waves on the shore, but the ones who stick around are the ones worth building sandcastles with.” — Unknown
12. “If you have three friends in your life, you’re lucky. If you have one, you’re more than lucky, you’re blessed.” — Paul Auster
13. “It’s not the number of friends you have, but the quality of the friendships that matters.” — John Lennon
14. “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “Friendship is like a lighthouse in the sea of life. It shows the way to safety and keeps us from drifting into darkness.” — Unknown
16. “A hundred paths may cross our way, but only a few will make footprints in our hearts.” — Unknown
17. “Some friendships are brief, some endure, but all leave you a little changed.” — Unknown
18. “Goodbyes are not forever. They are simply the promise of seeing you again.” — John Lennon
19. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends who are family.” — Unknown
20. “True friends are like diamonds – precious, rare, and valuable.” — Thomas Carlyle
21. “Always remember the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you’re gonna have, while friends come and go.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour
22. “There are things in life that will never be quite the same once you’ve met someone. And that’s okay.” — Unknown
23. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens
24. “Don’t be afraid to lose people. Be afraid to lose yourself by living in fear of losing them.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
25. “Sometimes saying goodbye is the only way to say thank you.” — Zig Ziglar
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26. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
27. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” — Roald Dahl
28. “There are people whom one should like very well to drop, and would not wish to be dropped by.” — Samuel Jackson
30. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “It’s not the length of a friendship that matters, it’s the depth of the connection.” — Unknown
32. “Friends come and go, but there’s always a reason.” ― Joey Parker
33, “Life is like the sand of time. The tighter you hold it, the faster it slips away.” — Unknown
34. “So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!” — Jonathan Safran
35. “Sometimes goodbyes are just the beginning of a new chapter.” — Unknown
36. “There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t met yet.” — William Butler Yeats
37. “Good friends they come; good friends, they go. It’s just a product of this crazy world and how it goes.” — Damion Anderson
38. “One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.” — Henry Adams
39. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow
40. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “All along your life, people come and go. Some hurt you, some make you smile, but each one of them leaves something of theirs with us.” — Karen Salmansohn
42. “It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye.” — Carrie Underwood
43. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
44. “People coming and going in and out of your life is just another reminder that change is indeed the only constant in life, period.” — Samuel Zulu
45. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
46. “People come and go, but love always remains. Sometimes beautiful and sometimes beautiful ache, but love always remains.” — JMStorm
47. “Time will pass and people come and go. People come and go in our life but memories stay forever.’ — Debasish Mridha
48. “Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” — Dave Brenner
49. “People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don’t want to suffer, they won’t be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.” — Geneen Roth
50. “People come into your life and go, but you will always have to live with yourself. Make yourself pleasant, positive, and peaceful.” ― Akin Olokun