Sympathy Quotes


These Sympathy quotes  below are perfect to help you express the words that seem so difficult for so many of us when dealing with loss or a friend who is mourning. 

Whether its helping a loved one or acquaintance, this selection will ideally make it easier for you to reach out and be there for them at a time of need. Sending your sympathy is very important and changes peoples lives. I hope these are helpful.

Sympathy Quotes and Condolence quotes just for you. 

•In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

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. ~Quoted in The Angels' LittleInstruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

•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. ~Kahlil Gibran

•Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ~Emily Dickinson

•Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

•He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

•A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen

•To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"

•While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor

•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

•If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again. ~Author Unknown


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

•Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~Kahlil Gibran

•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

•With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! ~Thomas Moore

•And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. ~John Henry Newman

•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

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More Sympathy Quotes  below.

•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

•You don't get over it, you just get through it. You don't get by it, because you can't get around it. It doesn't 'get better'; it just gets different. Everyday... Grief puts on a new face.... -Wendy Feireisen

•Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know that they are happy. -Author Unknown

•When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. -Author Unknown

•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

•Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown

•When he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. ~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

•Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

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•Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. -George S. Patton

•Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. -Saint Terese of Lisieux

•The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. -George Eliot

•The strongest have their moments of fatigue. -Friedrich Nietzsche

•Grief creates exhaustion. We are tired most of the time if not all of the time. Remember to find the energy to feed your soul. Hope these sympathy quotes were helpful.

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