Sympathy For Loss Quotes:

A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Sympathy, Memories, Grateful, 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

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

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

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

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

source: "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

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

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

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

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

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

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

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Thinking, Inspirational Sympathy, Sympathy For Loss

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

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

- Russell Hoban

source: Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

topic: Silly, Loss, Animal, Sympathy For Loss, Dog Grief

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

topic: Cute, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

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

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

- Thomas Hardy

source: Thomas Hardy (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Dog, Heart, Loss, Sympathy For Loss, Dog Grief

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

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

- Mary Carolyn Davies

topic: Dog, Autumn, Loss, Old Ways, Sympathy For Loss

No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

- Louis Sabin

topic: Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

- Willie Morris

topic: Family, Dog, Brother, Dealing With Death, Sympathy For Loss

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

- Russell Hoban

topic: Silly, Animal, Earth, Sympathy For Loss, Dog Grief

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Death, Grieving, Memorial, Sympathy For Loss, Death Condolences

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

topic: Sympathy, Death, Depressing, Meaningful Death, Memorial For Loved One

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 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

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

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

- Samuel Butler

source: Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

topic: Dog, Humorous, Personality, Making A Fool Of Yourself, Man And Dog

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

- Samuel Butler

source: Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

topic: Life, Motivational, Happiness, Sympathy For Loss, Pet Loss

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

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

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

- James O'Barr

topic: Sympathy, Death, Lost Love, Inspirational Mourning, Love Grows

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

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

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

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

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

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

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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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