Sympathy Quotes

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Norman Cousins

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

Haruki Murakami

"Grief is what we think and feel on the inside when someone we love dies. Mourning is the outward expression of those thoughts and feelings."

Alan Wolfelt

"Our friend and we were invited abroad on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he is gone before us."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

Homer

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

Ovid

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Charles Dickens

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections."

John Keats

"Grief fills the room up of my absent child."

"Even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living."

Paul Kalanithi

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Randy Pausch

"Death does not exist, daughter. People only die when we forget them."

Isabel Allende

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Mary Shelley

"Grief may be joy misunderstood."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Yesterday he was; today he is not – such is the greatness of this world."

Thiruvalluvar

"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

Jean Paul Richter

"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle."

Fred Rogers

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

Frederick Buechner

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you."

Eckhart Tolle

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

"The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life more than anything else."

Rachel Naomi Remen

"Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."