Friendship is the most important thing in life. Being without your best friends might leave you feeling empty on the inside. They, therefore, deserve to know how much you miss them both in this life and the next.
I have compiled a list of missing friends’ quotes and messages that you can send to your best friend, friends who are away from you, or a dear friend who has passed away. Pour your heart out on paper, make them feel wonderful, and let the world know how much you miss them.
If you’re reeling from the pain of being apart from your friends, let them know how much you miss them by using these thoughtfully written quotes in this article.
65 heart-touching missing my friends quotes
- “Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” — Sashank Varma
- “Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.”— Unknown
- “It’s like I get pierced with a knife each time my mind wanders to you and I miss you”
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “It’s unintentionally doing things you would usually do, like drumming on the diner table while eating. Singing in the elevator when I’m alone. I knew instantly that I miss you so much”
- “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” —Munia Khan
- “A pain I would never wish on anyone is the one where you look by your side but can’t find that one person whom you grew up with, built with, and faced all life challenges with”
- “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”—Donna Lynn Hope
- “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” — Dodinsky
- “ When you no longer hear your friends applauding you, you know they are no longer there”
- “Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.” — Samuel Johnson
- “My best friend is my soul sister. I never thought I could imagine a life where she would be separated from me”
- “I don’t want to wake up missing old friends”
- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night”— Bill Watterson
- “I hope my friend doesn’t make friends. I hope I will be their only friend no matter how far we are from each other”
- “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever”— A. A. Milne
- “When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I’m with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you”— LeBron James
- “It’s just a three-letter word. If you don’t say it I will help you out. I miss you”
- “Rise up, wise up, say it out loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you”—Tegan Quin
- “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I would rather be put in my friend’s handbag when she travels than stay here alone missing her”
- “If I had a single flower for every time, I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden”—Claudia Grandi
- “Times when you are apart from each other. Times that are painful to the heart. Do you miss your friend?”
- “The memories we shared will never fade away, it’s the memories that we couldn’t stay to make”
- “My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.” – Sanober Khan
- “Even though I know we won’t lose touch after you go, my heart finds it incredibly difficult to accept”
- “I miss you in ways that not even words can understand”—Gemma Troy
- “Only the miles separate us. Our hearts are bonded together”
- “Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color”—W.S. Merwin
- “No matter the miles that separate us, I will always treasure the times we spent together”
- “Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you”—Ranata Suzuki
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- “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” – Alcibiades
- “Distance is our only enemy. But we will never let it win because our bond is stronger than it”
- “I look for you in a crowded place, hoping you have returned to surprise me”
- “In times of separation, I affirm that our connection remains intact through spirit. Spirits lead our loving hearts and spirit knows no distance or separation.” —Julia Cameron
- “When I hear my name, my heart jolts because you are the voice it wishes to hear calling”
- “I must have come down with something, or maybe I’m just missing you”
- “When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “Knowing you are not here to make me smile is one thing I will never be able to bear.”
- “I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” — Saint Augustine
- “Sometimes someone’s presence matters, even if a crowd gathers.” ― Syed Iflaq, Collection Of Poems
- “Our memories are ones impossible to forget, I wish it lasts forever”
- “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” ― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine
- “…Time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zones separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.”—Jamie Ford
- “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “Regardless of the distance, you will continue to be my best friend and no one will take your place”
- “I truly miss the good old times. Evergreen memories”
- “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” ― Calla Quinn, All the Time
- “Right now, I’m thinking back and remembering the good old days, remembering all my old friends and the awesome times we spent together”
- “It’s hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.” ― Nikki Schiefelbein
- “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” — Richard Wilbur
- “ I feel a part of me missing because I miss you”
- “We may be apart but our friendship will never change.
- “Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.” ― Unarine Ramaru
- “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.” — Salvador Plascencia
- “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance”—Dodinsky
- “You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.” —John Cena
- “Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence”—Rachel Wolchin
- “When we miss someone, often what we really miss is the part of us that this someone awakens.” —Luigina Sgarro
- “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other`s worth.” — Robert Southey
- “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart” Elizabeth Foley
- “When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster”—Taylor Swift
- “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” —Unknown
- “When you miss your loved one, remember the beautiful moments you’ve had with them. And when your heart swells, cuddle your pillow and let your tears soothe the pain.” —Anoir Ou-Chad
Over to you
I sincerely hope that these quotes about missing friends have brought you some sense of peace and comfort. May they inspire you to know what to write in missing a friend message or caption for social media.