Sympathy Condolences Quotes:

A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

- Kenji Miyazawa

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

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Sympathy, Would Be, World, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy For A Friend

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Sympathy, Animal, Quality, Sympathy And Love, Sympathy Condolences

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

topic: Sympathy, Sports, Condolences, 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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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 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

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Hands, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

- Jean Giraudoux

topic: Smile, My Condolences, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy For A Friend

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

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

- Bill Shoemaker

topic: Motivational, Athlete, Race, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

For some moments in life there are no words.

- David Seltzer

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

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Sympathy, Passion, Heart, Human Heart, Sympathy And Love

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

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Spy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

- Marcel Proust

source: A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

topic: Happiness, Sympathy, Depression, Sympathy Condolences, Body Temperature

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

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

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

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

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

- Billy Graham

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Death Of A Loved One, It Still Hurts, My Condolences

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

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

- Confucius

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

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

- Helen Keller

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

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

topic: Inspirational, Soccer, Loss, Sympathy And Love, Sympathy Condolences

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Sympathy, Destiny, Joy, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy For A Friend

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

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Relationship, Sad, Life And Death, Sympathy Condolences, Lost Friend

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Saint Augustine

source: "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

topic: Love, Life, Sympathy, Loving Others, Sympathy And Love

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