Comforting Words Quotes:

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

- William James

source: William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

topic: Life, Positive, Encouraging, Live Life To Its Fullest, Afraid Of Life

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

- Ann Landers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, This Too Shall Pass, Comforting Words

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, Children, Tree, Younger Generation, Not Afraid Of Death

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

- Thomas Campbell

topic: Prayer, Condolences, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Death, Gratitude, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

- Willa Cather

source: "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.

topic: Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day, Memorial Stone, Time Love

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

- Walt Whitman Rostow

source: Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

topic: War, Tunnels, Light, Trippy, Staying Positive In Life

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning, Ripening, Inspirational Bereavement

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

topic: Sad, Sympathy, Stars, Sorrow Love, Meaningful Death

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

- James Thurber

topic: Dog, Nature, Animal, I Love My Dog, Labrador Dogs

No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Jesus, Brother, Kindness, Love And Affection, Faithful Friends

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Hands, Comforting, Dying, Rue, Comforting Words

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

- Bram Stoker

source: Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.329, "F+W Media, Inc."

topic: Grateful, Comforting, Euthanasia, Comforting Words

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"

- Donald Hall

source: Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and ambition: essays, 1982-88”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Comforting Words, Things Will Get Better