Funeral Sympathy Quotes:

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

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

- Kenji Miyazawa

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

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

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Flower, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Source Of Life, Memorial Stone

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

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

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

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

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

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

- Ben Okri

source: "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Condolences, Inspirational Condolences, Suffering And Death

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- George S. Patton

source: Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

topic: Death, Wisdom, Memorial Day, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

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

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

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

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

- Solomon

topic: Dance, Dancing, Laughing, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Mourning

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

topic: Life, Encouraging, Spiritual, Value Of Life, Had A Great Time

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

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

- Nazr Mohammed

topic: Kindness, Funeral, Eulogy, Inspirational Death, True Wealth

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

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Sea, Rivers, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Grief

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Sympathy, Stories, Life Is, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Death

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

- Thomas Love Peacock

topic: Sympathy, Dark, Tears, My Condolences, Sympathy For Loss

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

- John Henry Newman

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

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

- Irving Berlin

source: Title of song (1927)

topic: Song, Prayer, Memorial, Inspirational Death, Memorial Stone

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again, Our Condolences, My Condolences

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

- Lucan

topic: Sympathy, Death, Men, Inspirational Condolences, Suffering And Death