Sympathy Quotes
A quote can sometimes express words that are difficult to say. Read through our collection of sympathy quotes and sayings, we hope you find them helpful in expressing your thoughts to the person who is grieving.and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time.
Beth Mende Conny
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
John Taylor
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Ingersoll
When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
Helen Keller
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
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From a headstone in Ireland
more sympathy quotes and sayings
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all.
Perfect relief is not possible, except with time.
You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better.
And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
Abraham Lincoln
Like a bird
Singing in the rain,
Let grateful memories
Survive in time of sorrow.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every blade in the field —
every leaf in the forest —
lays down its life in its season
as beautifully as it was taken up.
Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are those who mourn; for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth
Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher
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 Worthington Raymond
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God." Eileen Elias Freeman
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