Sympathy Messages Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

- George Eliot

topic: Death, Literature, Forgotten, Sympathy Messages, Condolence Message

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

topic: Life, Character, Men, Dear Life, Sympathy Messages

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

- Helen Keller

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

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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, 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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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