My Sympathy Quotes

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

Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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When you are sorrowful, look again.

Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Love, Sympathy, Death

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Sympathy, Helping Others

The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Sympathy, Death, Pain

Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

Change, Sympathy, Native American

Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

"Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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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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They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.

William Penn

Sympathy, Death, Grief

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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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

Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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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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A human life is a story told by God.

Hans Christian Andersen

Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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

Roger Caras

Life, Dog, Sorry

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy, Selfishness, Virtue

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

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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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

Emily Dickinson

Love, Sympathy, Death

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Sympathy, Death, Memories

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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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

Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

John Henry Newman

Sympathy, Condolences, Angel

John Henry Newman (1837). “Lyra apostolica”, p.29

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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

Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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