At the loss of a friend: “I was miserable, and miserable too is everyone

“At the loss of a friend: “I was miserable, and miserable too is everyone whose mind is chained by friendship with moral things, and is torn apart by their loss, and then becomes aware of the misery that it was in even before it lost them…..Look upon my heart, O my God, look deep within it. See, O my hope, who cleanse me from the incleanness of such affections, who draw my eyes to yourself and pull my feet from the snare. I was amazed that other mortals went on living when he was dead whom I had loved as though he would never die, and still more amazed that I could go on living myself when he was dead – Il who had been likr another self to him. it was well said that a friend is half one’s soul. i felt that my soul and his had been but one soul in two bodies”. (Conf IV 6. 11)