Condolence Card Quotes - Page 2

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

John Muir

Life, Beautiful, Death

John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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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

Love, Sympathy, Death

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sad, Sympathy, Stars

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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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

Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain

Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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