Sympathy For A Friend Quotes:

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

- William Shakespeare

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

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

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

- Joni Mitchell

topic: Life, Grief, Sorrow, 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

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Real, Condolences, Mind, Sympathy For A Friend

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

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

topic: Death, Spiritual, Angel, Sorrow Love, Joy And Grief

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

topic: Dog, Animal, Years, Hard Things, Sympathy For A Friend

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

- Jean Giraudoux

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Helping Others, Compassion, Sympathy For A Friend, Sympathy Messages

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Spiritual Advice

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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

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

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

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

The only cure for grief is action.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

topic: Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief, Inspirational Grief, Stages Of Grief

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Friendship, Sympathy, Mean, Sympathy For A Friend

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.341

topic: Sympathy, Selfishness, Virtue, Sympathy For A Friend, My Sympathy

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Sympathy, Kindness, Inspiration, Acts Of Kindness, Sympathy For A Friend

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

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Sympathy, Education, Children, Inspirational Teacher, Sympathy For A Friend

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

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer

topic: Friendship, Family, Brother, Sympathy For A Friend, Friendship Over

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

- Steven Curtis Chapman

source: "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com.

topic: Christian, Compassion, Response, Sympathy For A Friend

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

topic: Sympathy, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Sympathy For A Friend