Condolence Quotes
Losing a loved one is not an easy phase to get through. It is always devastating and no amount of love can replace the pain they feel at this point. Writing a heartfelt sympathy message can be very difficult. If you’re at a loss for words, you can use condolences quotes and sayings to let your friend or family member know that they can count on you.
In this article, you will find a collection of sympathy quotes, console your loved ones with these quotes. Also, remind them that you are always available should incase they need someone to talk to.
60 Heartfelt Sympathy/Condolence Quotes
”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
”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
”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
”Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. […] The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.“ – Dean Koontz
”Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears.” – Criss Jami
“Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle.“ – Stacey Urrutia
”The season of mourning, Like spring, summer, Fall and winter, will also pass.”- Molly Fumia
”I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.“ – Gail Caldwell
”We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” – Confucius
”Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
”While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
“To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? […] This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it.“ – Jeanette Winterson
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” – Oscar Wilde
”Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.“ – Ann Druyan
”It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?” – Benjamin Franklin
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” – Victor Hugo
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.” – Orison Swett Marden
”If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.“ – Anthon St. Maarten
”My [mom/nana] 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
”Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
”There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
”Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” – Rita Schiano
”He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Longfellow
“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.” – William Wordsworth
”However long the night, the dawn will break.” – African Proverb
”As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
”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
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
“There are no words. While you have joy knowing where your love is in a better place, there is sadness in the loss and grief. You are in our prayers.” – Catherine Pulsifer
”Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.“ – Elizabeth Gilbert
”So say it loud and let it ring. We are all part of everything. The future, present, and the past. Fly on proud bird. You’re free at last.” – Charlie Daniels
”A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
”The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!“ – Fyodor Dostoyevsk
”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
”Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Unknown
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.“ – Arthur Schopenhauer
“No person is ever truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved, Echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts”. – Richard Fife
”What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn.” – Native American Poem
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” – Nigella Lawson
“Pain could be so blinding that you lose sight of all the love that is within your reach. Times of sorrow are the moments you need to allow yourself to be loved, to be cared for.” – Unknown
”When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. “ – Unknown
”After a loved one passes, be encouraged by their passing and legacy. 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
”Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones are sealed inside to comfort us.“ – Brian Jacques
”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
”Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moo
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.“ – Cassandra Clare
”We must embrace our pain and burn it as a fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
”The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” – Demoustier
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” –Aeschylus
“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
“In times like this you should hold on firmly to faith and hope, it might look like you have lost more than you can bear but you are stronger than this pain you feel.” – Unknown
“Tenderly, may time heal your sorrow. Gently, may your friends ease your pain. Softly, may peace replace heartaches. And my warmest memories remain.” – Unknown
”Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
”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
”Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.“ – W.S. Merwin
”For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” – William Penn
”Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you.” – Rossiter Raymond