Sympathy Quotes

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth that we will begin to live each day to the fullest."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all."

Mitch Albom

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

Mitch Albom

"Acceptance is a small, quiet room."

Cheryl Strayed

"The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them."

Francis Weller

"May you know that absence is full of tender presence and that nothing is ever lost or forgotten."

John O'Donohue

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

George Eliot

"Into each life some rain must fall."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us."

Seneca

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

Cicero

"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

"What's gone and what's past help should be past grief."

"Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

"Suffering – no matter how multiplied – is always individual."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

Leo Tolstoy

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

Viktor Frankl

"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness."

Elie Wiesel

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude."

Anne Frank

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant."

Joan Didion

"Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was."

Henry Scott Holland