Our Condolences Quotes

• 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

  Love, Sympathy, Memories

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• We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• 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

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• 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

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

  Maya Angelou

  Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Condolences, Hands

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• 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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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Sympathy, Philosophical

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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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• 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

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Prayer, Condolences, Heart

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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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, Condolences

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

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

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• We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  War, Condolences, America

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• We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

  Helen Clark

  Condolences, America, People

  "Australia pledges help, support" by Grant Holloway, cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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