Heartfelt Sympathy: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Grief and love are conjoined — you don’t get one without the other."

- Jandy Nelson

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

- Dante Alighieri

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

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms."

- Paulo Coelho

"When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."

- Jean Giraudoux

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal."

- C.S. Lewis

"You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss."

- Mandy Hale

"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."

- Billy Graham

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."

- Morrie Schwartz

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

- Norman Cousins

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."

- Robert Southey

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them."

- Demoustier

"You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to FEEL the loss."

- Mandy Hale

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Thomas Campbell

"Grief and love are conjoined—you don’t get one without the other."

- Jandy Nelson

"The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment."

- Dr. Colin Murray Parkes

"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

"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A.A. Milne

"A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love."

- Joanne Cacciatore

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

- Dorothy Ferguson

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

- Henry Rollins

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

- Corita Kent

"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."

- Ivan Turgenev

"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."

- Jean Paul

"Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth."

- George Saunders

"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!"

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Marcel Proust

"Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them."

- James O’Barr

"Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn."

- Native American Poem

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

- Helen Keller

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

- Joni Mitchell

"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in a time of sorrow."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"May love be what you remember most."

- Darcie Sims

"A great soul serves everyone all the time A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness."

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."

- Malcolm Forbes

"There is no death. Only a change of worlds."

- Chief Seattle

"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

- Meister Eckhart

"All things grow with time, except grief."

- Jewish Proverb

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

- Lord Byron

"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

- Meister Eckhart

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

- Confucius

"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

- Saint Augustine

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

- Agatha Christie

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left."

- Sufi

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."

- Seneca

"You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’; it just gets different. Everyday grief puts on a new face."

- Wendy Feireisen

"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

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain."

- Anne Grant

"From the end spring new beginnings."

- Pliny the Elder

"Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island."

- Neil Gaiman

"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

- William Blake

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

- Homer

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

- Norman Cousins

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

- Xenophon

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."

- Ann Landers

"You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be."

- Nigella Lawson

"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."

- Lillie Langtry

"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."

- Joseph Addison

"I believe that tears can heal, memories can comfort, and love lives on forever."

"Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us in our hearts and memories."

"Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever."

"Those we love can never be more than a thought away; for as long as there’s a memory, they live on in our hearts."

"The loss can feel immeasurable, but so can the love that’s left behind."

"A good heart has stopped beating, but a heart that has touched so many lives can’t help but live on in those it loved."

"Someone so special can never be forgotten."

"Nothing can replace the loss of a loved one, but life goes on, and we have to live for those we love."

"It will be little things that we remember—smiles, laughter—and although it is hard right now, the memories of these things will become tools to push away the pain."

"May care and love of those around you provide comfort and peace to get you through the days ahead."

"May you be comforted by the outpouring of love surrounding you."

"No words can describe how sorry I am for your loss. Please accept our deepest sympathy."

"Wishing you strength for today and hope for tomorrow."

"Our collective hearts are heavy with sympathy. Please accept our most heartfelt condolences."

"Please accept my sincerest condolences and know that I am here for you."

"Words may not suffice to express the heartfelt sorrow that I feel for the passing of your loved one."

"We’re sharing in your sorrow with love and friendship. Please accept our deepest condolences."

"Grief never ends, but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love."

"The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on."

"May you find comfort in loving memories, strength in the support of those who care, and hope in each new day."

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

"Those we love can never be more than a thought away, for as long as there’s a memory they live in our hearts to stay."

"The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found."

"I would trade all of my tomorrows for just one more day with you."