Words Of Condolence Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Sympathy, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

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

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

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

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, 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

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, 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

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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 human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

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

For some moments in life there are no words.

- David Seltzer

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