Sympathy Quotes

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

Victor Hugo

"Tears are words that need to be written."

Paulo Coelho

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

Christopher Morley

"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

Margery Allingham

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts."

Dorothy Ferguson

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

Terry Pratchett

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."

Emily Dickinson

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."

John Donne

"He hath awakened from the dream of life."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?"

William Blake

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

"Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace."

"Birth and death are not two different states, but different aspects of the same state."

"Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down."

"Death is like sleep; and birth is like waking from that sleep."

Thiruvalluvar

"Is there a bolt that can shut in love? The trickling tears of the loving will proclaim it."

Thiruvalluvar

"The joy of the drop is to merge into the river."

Mirza Ghalib

"And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful."

Ruskin Bond

"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

Victor Hugo

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."

Louisa May Alcott

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

Mark Twain