Friendship Quote by Willa Cather

“So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone…

— Maryanne O'Hara

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much…

— Virginia Woolf

“I did not look about me, though sometimes I glanced up into the great bowl of the night sky and at the constellations scattered…

— Susan Hill

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.”

— Brad Kessler

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard

“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”

— Colum McCann

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that…

— Walter Kirn

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with it? And…

— Terry Pratchett