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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sweat, Effort, Tears

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

  Meister Eckhart

  Depression, Light, Darkness

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Life, Peace, Hard Work

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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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• 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, Condolences

  "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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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Condolences

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

  Rita Schiano

  Grief, Healing, Losing A Loved One

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

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Pleasure, Our Thoughts

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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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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Men, Prejudice, Interest

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Condolences, Losing A Loved One, Angel

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

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• 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

  Condolences, Dark, Tears

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