Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart–all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

Anonymous
About This Quote

This quote is about how much friendship means to the people who are closer than family. It’s about the sorrow of losing a friend by keeping in touch with them over the phone. When you’re old enough to be friends with someone, it’s usually long enough for you to know that they are growing distant and living in a world apart.

Source: Essays In Idleness The Tsurezuregusa Of Kenko

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