Here are our collections of sympathy quotes for those difficult time periods when someone you know has experienced a loss.
Sympathy Quotations to Reflect On
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Saying
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
Leo Buscaglia
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Gandhi
May you see God’s light on the path ahead
When the road you walk is dark.
May you always hear,
Even in your hour of sorrow,
The gentle singing of the lark.
When times are hard, may hardness
Never turn your heart to stone,
May you always remember
when the shadows fall –
You do not walk alone.
Irish Blessing
Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so – ‘twas heaven here with you.
Isla Paschal Richardson
As you danced in the light with joy, love lifted you. As you brushed against this world so gently, you lifted us.
TC Ring
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Sorry to Hear Quotes
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
Unknown
Although the pain seems like it will never end, it doesn’t but I promise it will get easier to handle and deal within time. Also remember… although you loved them, God loved them more.
Unknown
As you comprehend this profound loss… let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens.
Unknown
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
John Taylor
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Leo Tolstoy
To Reflect On
Believe in Angels. They express themselves in many ways, a dream, a whisper, coincidence an overpowering feeling.
Unknown
How very quietly you tiptoed into our world, silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts.
Unknown
Each new life, no matter how brief, forever changes the world.
Unknown
Forever blessed by the memories you left behind.
Unknown
Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it’s just enough to know that they are standing by.
Unknown
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
Condolences Sympathy for Loss of Mother
But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
Mitch Albom
My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
Graycie Harmon
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture, dignity, and love.
John Milton
Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, thank you, Mother dear.
Unknown
When you speak of her, speak not with tears, for thoughts of her should not be sad. Let memories of the times you shared give you comfort, for her life was rich because of you.
Unknown
A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever.
Unknown
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Sympathy Quotes For Loss of Father
Your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
Unknown
Say not in grief, “He is no more,” but in thankfulness that, “He was.”
Unknown
Instead of crying, live an inspired, spiritual and happy life like they did when they were here. Live each day with encouragement knowing that they are proud and smiling down on you from Heaven. Matt Fraser
For loss of Husband
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, and I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
Unknown
We’ve shared our lives these many years. You’ve held my hand; you’ve held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears – yet, for a moment, we must part.
Unknown
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
I think when loved ones die, we absorb something from them that makes us who we are so we can continue on.
Reginald VelJohnson
For loss of Brother
I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
Jean Baptiste Legouve
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.
Unknown
You can’t forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
Unknown
For loss of Son
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Unknown
May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise holds more peace.
Unknown
For loss of Daughter
Wishing you strength for today and hope for tomorrow.
Unknown
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
Unknown
My heart is with you in your time of sorrow.
Unknown
There is no way that i could being to explain to someone what it feels like being without you. I would say it’s like the earth without the sky.
Cindy Adkins
Grief Quotes
The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean-Paul Richter
Everyone copes differently, some cry for the loss of a loved one, others smile because they know they’ll see them again.
Unknown
While we are mourning the loss of a friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
Unknown
There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
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
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Unknown
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
Eileen Elias Freeman
Thoughtful Grief Quotations
May the blessings of love be upon you, May its peace abide with you, May its essence illuminate your heart, Now and forevermore.
Sufi Blessing
If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time.
Beth Mende Conny
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
Chief Dan George
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed
we can never lose…
All that we love deeply
becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
John 11:25,26
Heartfelt Words
It doesn’t end after a year, that’s a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and onto on their hurt, and guilt, and pain.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
Eileen Mayhew
They say love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
Grief makes one hour ten.
William Shakespeare
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in a time of sorrow.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mourning can go on for years and years.
Unknown
Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know that are happy.
Unknown
When a soul dies, the winds will blow. The greater the soul, the greater the winds.
Unknown
When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
Unknown
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wadsworth
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Sympathy Quotes
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it is digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
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
A thousand words can’t bring you back, I know because I tried. And neither can a million tears, I know because I cried.
Unknown
If every tear we shed for you became a star above; you’d stroll in Angel’s gardens lit by everlasting love.
Unknown
You never truly know what’s on someone’s heart, so treat them with kindness, respect, and compassion.
Joel Zambrano
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Deepest Sympathy
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
Sending you my love and comfort. My deepest sympathies for your loss.
Unknown
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. Maya Angelou
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth
He who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how.’
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Comforting Words
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Terri Guillemets
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
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
1Cor 2:9
What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Had I not loved so much, I would not hurt so much. I will hurt. And I will be grateful for that hurt, for it bears witness to the depth of our meaning. And for that, I will be eternally grateful.
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
Unknown
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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