Condolences And Sympathy Quotes:

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

- Liane Moriarty

source: Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

topic: Going Away, Someone You Miss, Missed You, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

- Rossiter W. Raymond

source: Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Sympathy, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Death, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Joy And Grief, Stages Of Grief

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

topic: Love, Sympathy, Beauty, Sympathy For Loss, Sympathy Messages

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

- Rita Schiano

topic: Sympathy, Water, Tears, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Mourning

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Sympathy, Heart, Two, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy For A Friend

For some moments in life there are no words.

- David Seltzer

topic: Sympathy, Moments, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy, Death Of A Friend

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

- William Penn

source: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

topic: Sympathy, Death, Love Is, Inspirational Condolences, Memorial For Loved One

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Condolences

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

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

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

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Sympathy, Memories, Knowing, Inspirational Condolences, Memory Loss

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

topic: Strength, Time, Flower, Inspirational Bereavement, Our Condolences

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Good Night, Taken, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Sympathy, Children, Real, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

- Julie Burchill

source: "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

topic: Love, Death, Condolences, Someone Dying, Sympathy Condolences

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

- Confucius

topic: Happiness, Sympathy, Philosophical, Our Condolences, Sympathy Condolences

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

The light has gone out of my life.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Loss, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy Messages

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Sympathy, Sleep, Wine, Keynes, Best Wine

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

- Anne Grant

topic: Love, Pain, Grief, Stages Of Grief, Sympathy Condolences

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

source: "Fictional character: Reverend Robert Alden". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("Remember Me: Part 1", 1975), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

topic: Happiness, Sympathy, Laughter, Laughter And Smiles, Little House On The Prairie

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

topic: Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain, Inspirational Condolences, Death Of A Friend

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

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

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle

source: Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

topic: Change, Native American, Psychics, Indian Wisdom, Meaningful Death

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Life, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

- Dan Rather

source: Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

topic: Courage, Cancer, Grief, Inspirational Condolences, Be Courageous

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

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

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Pain, Grief, Joy And Grief, Inspirational Bereavement

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences