Sympathy Quotes
Below is a list of sympathy quotations that were selected from various venues. Some are credited to famous poets and authors, others to anonymous wordsmiths and authors unknown. If you're sending a sympathy card to a friend or co-worker and you're at a loss for words, sometimes another person's phrasing can best express your true feelings. So feel free to borrow one of these bereavement quotes; just be sure the quotation is appropriate for your intended recipient, and remember to include your first and last name on your sympathy card so your recipient knows who it's from.
- Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
- And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
- Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman
- 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
- To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
- Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- One such headstone in Ireland
- He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A human life is a story told by God.
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
- Kahlil Gibran - While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
- John Taylor, Theologian and poet
- Good-night! Good-night! As we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
- William Cullen Bryant
- Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
- Author unknown
- When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
- Author unknown
