Sympathy Condolences Quotes - Page 2

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Rita Schiano

Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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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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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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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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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Julie Burchill

Love, Sympathy, Death

"The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Codice Trivulziano 281

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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Anne Grant

Love, Pain, Condolences

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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

Sympathy, Hurt, Condolences

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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy, Heart, Two

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

Happiness, Sympathy, Philosophical

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

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Inspirational, Sympathy, Soccer

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sympathy, Destiny, Joy

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sympathy, Death, Grief

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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

Relationship, Sad, Life And Death

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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

Love, Sympathy, Memories

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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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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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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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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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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Saint Augustine

Love, Life, Sympathy

"Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Maya Angelou

Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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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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