Sympathy Quotes

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."

Maurice Maeterlinck

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

G. K. Chesterton

"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose."

Henry Ward Beecher

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

"Never say of anything, 'I have lost it'; but, 'I have returned it.'"

"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

Seneca

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Mark Twain

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it."

Joan Didion

"Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."

Megan Devine

"Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint."

David Kessler

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable."

Fred Rogers

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

Fred Rogers

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person."

Albert Schweitzer

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Leo Buscaglia

"Empathy is feeling with people."

Brené Brown

"Rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection."

Brené Brown

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

Desmond Tutu

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

Thornton Wilder

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend."

Henry Taylor

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh