Condolences Quotes - Page 3

• 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 embrio 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

  Sympathy, Children, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Wine, Sleep

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

  Erich Fromm

  Sympathy, Death, Wise

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge

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• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Would Be, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sympathy, Thinking, Grieving

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

  Jean Giraudoux

  Smile, Sympathy, My Condolences

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Grief, Grieving

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Soccer

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• The light has gone out of my life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sympathy, Loss, Light

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Children, Father

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Sports, Tides

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

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

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Death Of A Loved One, Memorial

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

  Dirk Benedict

  Sympathy, Courage, Enjoy Life

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Bereavement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Sympathy, Good Night, Taken

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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

  Anne Grant

  Love, Pain, Grief

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• 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

  Sympathy, Hurt, Thinking

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  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

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

  Bram Stoker

  Sympathy, Facts, Helping

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