“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
William Wordsworth
PinWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen KellerPinA great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. – Maya Angelou
“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.”
PinThose we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri GuillemetsPinThere are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.”
PinIf there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. – Oscar WildePinYou can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to feel the loss. – Mandy HalePinThe 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.
15 Quotes on Sympathy that You Can Share With Someone Who’s Experiencing Loss
PinWishing you strength for today and hope for tomorrow. – Renee O’NeilPinAlthough no words can take away the sorrow that you bare. May it be comforting to you to know that others care.PinGone from our sight, but never from our hearts.PinA wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our loved ones are sealed inside to comfort us.PinWe pray the love for the lost is forever carried in your memory.PinMay the memories of your loved one give you strength in the days that lie ahead.PinMay my condolences bring you comfort and may my prayers ease the pain of this loss.PinMy heart is with you in your time of sorrow.PinMay the sorrow you feel in your heart lighten by the love that surrounds you.PinI hope you feel surrounded by much love.PinWe are here for you and your family, now and forever.PinWe are thinking of you during these difficult times.PinWords can’t express how saddened we are to hear of your loss.PinOur thoughts and prayers are with you.PinAnd then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.’
15 Touching Quotes on Sympathy
PinA sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. – HomerPinWhat is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air. – Thomas Bailey AldrichPinThe dew of compassion is a tear. – Lord ByronPinDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. – Norman CousinsPinAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. – Harriet Beecher StowePinOne’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 BeauvoirPinOnly a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts. – Dorothy FergusonPinTo desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan TurgenevPinThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPinFlowers grow out of dark moments. – Corita KentPinThe Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them. – DemoustierPinFrom the end spring new beginnings. – Pliny the ElderPinUnable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. – Emily DickinsonPinIf I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred Lord TennysonPinHe spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
12 Quotes on Sympathy in Dealing with Grief
PinHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. – Marcel ProustPinGrief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. – Anne Morrow LindberghPinOne often calms one’s grief by recounting it. – Pierre CorneillePinGrief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth IIPinGrief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. – Alphonse de LamartinePinGrief changes shape, but it never ends. – Keanu ReevesPinThe only cure for grief is action. – George Henry LewesPinTears are the silent language of grief. – VoltairePinIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. – Marcus Tullius CiceroPinExcess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – XenophonPinYou don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. – Nigella LawsonPinGrief is only the memory of widowed affections. – James Martineau
16 Quotes on Sympathy that Will Lighten Your Sorrow
“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
PinOnly 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 GoethePinSorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni MitchellPinPeople who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. – Ann LandersPinSorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor HugoPinWhen 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. – Khalil GibranPinTruly, 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 EckhartPinWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten BoomPinWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William ShakespearePinHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas MoorePinLife has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. – Dirk BenedictPinThere is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. – Dante AlighieriPinLike a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in a time of sorrow. – Robert Louis StevensonPinBear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. – OvidPinThe cure for sorrow is to learn something. – Barbara SherPinOur trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. – Orison Swett Marden
14 Quotes on Sympathy That Will Make You Think
“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.”
PinCome away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. – William Butler YeatsPinExcessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”
Oscar Wilde
PinIt’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry RollinsPinSympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. – Lillie LangtryPinThe 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 SoutheyPinNo 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 GrahamPinAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. – Leonardo da VinciPinLet no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. – Quintus EnniusPinGrant but memory to us, and we lose nothing by death. – John G. WhittierPinWhen you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. – Cristiano RonaldoPinLoss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. – Hilaire BellocPinThe more sympathy you give, the less you need. – Malcom Forbes
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