Sympathy Quotes

• 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, Memories, Condolences

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, God, Pain

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

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• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Heart, People

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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, Broken Heart

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• May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Memories, Grief, Space

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• For some moments in life there are no words.

  David Seltzer

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Life Is Short

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• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Memories, Grateful

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• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Mean, Trying

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

  James O'Barr

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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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

  Condolences, Together Again, Funeral

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Grieving, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

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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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• Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed.

  Margaret Jones

  Pain, Sunshine, Thinking About You

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• 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

  Death, Military, Condolences

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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

  William Penn

  Death, Grief, Condolences

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

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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

  Good Night, Condolences, Taken

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

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  There is no death, only a change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Change, Native American, Psychics

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

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Wisdom, Grief

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Peace, Grief, Sadness

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Tears are the silent language of grief.

  Voltaire

  Grief, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4431, e-artnow

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• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  Walt Whitman

  Funeral, Leaves Of Grass, Walks

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

  Erich Fromm

  Death, Wise, Clever

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Children, Kindness

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• The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moments, Fatigue, Strongest

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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