Sympathy Quotes

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

Morrie Schwartz

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

"Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

José N. Harris

"Every lament is a love-song."

Nicholas Wolterstorff

"The only cure for grief is to grieve."

Earl Grollman

"Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it."

Arthur Golden

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

Leo Buscaglia

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Alphonse de Lamartine

"When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened."

Margaret Mead

"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

"We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love."

Madame de Staël

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"Those who love beyond the world cannot be separated by it."

William Penn

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti

"And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void in any heart so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!"

Charles Dickens

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Kahlil Gibran

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love."

Earl Grollman

"You don't heal from the loss of a loved one because time passes; you heal because of what you do with the time."

Carol Crandell

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

Tryon Edwards