89 Missing Friends Quotes To Help You Ease The Loneliness Inside

Let these missing friends quotes offer a little support if you feel blue about being separated from someone you care about.

Friends are an important part of our lives; missing them can be difficult.

The show FRIENDS taught us about the intricacies of human relationships and the ways we can count on our friends.

When you miss the people who make your life more enjoyable, let these missing friends quotes remind you of the good times.

There might be many reasons for missing your friend—maybe they moved, passed away, or you had a falling out.

Maybe you have had the same circle of friends since high school, and now, 40 years later, you are moving away.

Or maybe, you made a new friend recently, but that person helped you grow and change.

Regardless of how long you have been someone’s friend, it is ok to miss them when they are gone!

Time spent knowing a person does not always equate to having a deep and meaningful relationship with someone.

That closeness is built on similar past experiences, new experiences shared between people, and how open and honest you are with each other.

If you are missing your friends for whatever reason, then hopefully, these missing friends quotes will help ease the pain.

At the end of this article, there are a few tips for coping with missing your friends that you might also find helpful.

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Missing Your Best Friend Quotes  

Few things are harder in life than losing your best friend, regardless of the situation. Take a look at the quotes below and see if you have experienced any of the quotes.

1. “When I miss my best friend, I miss my happiness.” — Unknown 

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2. “There is no agony like the one I feel when I miss my best friend.” — Unknown 

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3. “One of the worst things in the world is to miss your BFF, so come back soon.” — Unknown 

4. “Miles don’t influence our friendship because love for you is always in my heart. I miss my best friend!” — Unknown   

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5. “As long as we both share the same sky and breathe in the same air, we will remain best friends to each other. I miss you!” — Unknown 

6. “We don’t talk every day and we don’t see each other often, but I know that if you’ll always be by my side. I miss my best friend.” — Unknown                                         

7. “It doesn’t matter even if you are far away from me, you will always be in my heart. I miss you my bff and love you infinitely.” — Unknown 

8. “Missing your best friend is seeing the empty seat beside you and knowing that your day is not the same without them in it.” — Unknown 

9. “The idea of a best friend is wonderful, as is the reality that you miss them because of life! Absolutely awful. My dearest bestie, I miss you!” — Unknown

10. “Though days, months and as well as seasons have changed, but my love for you is still the same. No matter what, you will always be my best friends forever. Missing you.” — Unknown

Meaningful Missing Friends Quotes 

This next collection of quotes have a deeper meaning that at first observed. Take you time reading through the quotes and see what you think.

11. “Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” — Sashank Varma

12. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” — Nicholas Sparks 

13. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” — Dodinsky

14. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

15. “Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.” — Samuel Johnson

16. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” — Henry David Thoreau

17. “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 

18. “You are the friend who will always hold a special place in my heart for your immense support in my difficult times. Miss you good friend.” — Unknown 

19. “We frequently do not appreciate the importance of a real friend until they are gone. I’m really missing you ever since I’ve understood how important you are!” — Unknown

20. “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

Heartfelt Missing Friends Quotes 

This next collection of quotes will tug at your heart. Check out the quotes below and see if you can relate to any of these quotes.

21. “Friendship is… missing you like crazy.” — Unknown 

22. “I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” — Saint Augustine

23. “I always end up missing old friends and that feeling sucks.” — Unknown

24. “I am tired of missing you and it’s a shame we are not better friends.” — Unknown

25. “Sometimes someone’s presence matters, even if crowd gathers.” ― Syed Iflaq, Collection Of Poems

26. “Together we were unstoppable so I miss you now that we are no longer together, my friend.” — Unknown

27. “With you, it feels time just flies away. Without you, even a second seems like a day. I miss you my friend.” — Unknown

28. “When friendship is so significant, distance is barely noticeable. I’m dying to see your grin and hug you again.” — Unknown

29. “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” ― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

30. “You made me understand the true nature of friendship. You have given me so many sweet memories to cherish for a lifetime. I miss you dear friend!” — Unknown

Sad Missing Someone Quotes

You can feel the sadness of the individual that wrote these next quotes. Take a look at the quotes and see what you think.

31. “The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.” ― Hasse Jerner

32. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ― Ranata Suzuki

33. “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” ― Calla Quinn, All the Time

34. “Sometimes in life you have to miss someone you love until you don’t miss them anymore.” ― Angel Moreira

35. “Missing people is contagious, because it spreads through all the people you’ve ever missed.” ― Erin Moynihan, Laurel Everywhere

36. “That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.” ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

37. “I wonder if that’s just how it feels to miss someone so bad – like being stabbed in the gut a little bit, each time you think of them.” ― Kate Ellison, Notes from Ghost Town

38. “There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you’ll miss their companionship and you’ll also miss their disrespect.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

39. “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

40. “Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do with your life. And no matter how much time passes, you still feel the ache of their absence whenever they rise into your thoughts.” ― Caroline George, The Vestige

Sweet And Thoughtful Missing Friends Quotes

This next set of quotes are sweet and will make you think of friends you have lost in the past. Who did you think of when you read these quotes?

41. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” — Richard Wilbur

42. “Listen to the sunset…see its pretty hue… When you see it, think of me…and I’ll think of you…” ― Oksana Rus

43. “Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.” ― Unarine Ramaru

44. “When we miss someone, often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.” ― Luigina Sgarro

45. “Friends separated by distance may be maintained in thought, as well as letter writing or visiting.” — Blieszner & Adams

46. “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.” — Salvador Plascencia

47. “Missing someone doesn’t always mean you need to have them back in your life. Sometimes you just feel their absence in the present.” — Anurag Prakash Ray

48. “When you miss someone in your life,just close your eyes and think about the things that you do when you are with each other.” — Jeramae Panabia

49. “However, if you think the growing apart can be reversed, you can try to reconnect with your friend and see if putting more time and emotion into the friendship can rekindle the bond you once had.” — Jan Yager

50. “I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found.” — Helen Oyeyemi

Missing Friends Quotes To Express Your Lonely Feelings

51. “I only miss you when I’m breathing.” — Jason Derulo 

52. “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” — Franz Kafka

53. “Missing you comes in waves and tonight I’m drowning.” — Chris Young

54. “I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.” — Gemma Troy

55. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse De Lamartine

56. “Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you.” —  Ranata Suzuki

57. “My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.” — Sanober Khan

58. “Missing someone and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.” — Nathanael Richmond 

59. “Missing someone is the same as breathing, I suppose. It continues until the end.” — Caroline George

60. “Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present as present occurs.” — Zhi

Missing Friends Quotes To Cherish Connections In Absence

61. “I miss our talks, I miss our laughs, I miss us spending time together, but in the end I only miss you.” — Gippy Meel

62. “I miss you so much. I miss us. There’s not a day goes by that I don’t regret walking away from you.” — Sarah Grimm

63. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller

64. “Distance cannot matter – ours is a friendship of the heart.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

65. “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” — Doug Fetherling

66. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

67. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.” — Nicholas Sparks

68. “True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that separates you from them.” — Lance Reynald

69. “The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you.” — Dean Jackson

70. “Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” — Robert Brault

Missing Friends Quotes For Heartfelt Words Of Longing

71. “Friendship is being there when someone’s feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.” — Randy K. Milholland

72. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb

73. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

74. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” — Steve Maraboli

75. “Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” — Rachel Wolchin

76. “Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.” — Peyton Sawyer

77. “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

78. “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

79. “Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color.” — W.S. Merwin

Quotes About Missing Friends And Memories

80. “How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake.” — David Jones, Love As The Stars Went Out

81. “As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” — Donna Lynn Hope

82. “The world is very quiet without you around.” — Lemony Snicket

83. “You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.” — John Cena

84. “You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts.” — Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

85. “No matter where you go, you will always be in my heart.” — Anthony T. Hincks

86. “I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.” — Cecelia Ahern

87. “Another day, another pang that you are far.” — Byron Caldwell Smith

88. “Listen to the sunset; see its pretty hue. When you see it, think of me, and I’ll think of you.” — Oksana Rus

89. “Missing someone is part of loving them. Not until you are apart do you realize how much they mean to you.” — Nikhil Saluja

How To Cope With Missing A Friend

Human beings are social creatures and missing our friends can really weigh on us.

However, regardless of the reason you might be missing someone, there are ways you can help relieve the sadness and cope with the pain of loss.

First off, it is important to know that you need to take care of yourself.

Sit with your feelings and acknowledge them, but don’t let yourself get to the point where you can not eat or sleep.

You need to be well rested, properly fed, and kind to yourself to keep going. 

Remember that even though you are missing your friend dearly, there are other people around you for support.

Lean on them a little. Missing someone means you are feeling lonely.

While the other people in your life will not replace the friend you lost, you can still experience joy and love from others.

Try doing the things you and your friends used to do together!

Clearly, those experiences brought you happiness, and you might feel more connected to your friend if you still engage in those activities.

It will also be good for your own psyche to immerse yourself in things you enjoy.

Life is full of loss for a variety of reasons.

Most of the time, unless it is in the case of death, missing your friend is not a permanent issue.

If someone is moving away, you can still plan visits, talk on the phone, and interact with each other online.

It will not be the same, but your friendship will evolve and the intense feeling of loneliness will ebb. 

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