Sympathy

Overheard at a gravesite: “And they all said ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. – Khalil Gibran

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. – Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. – Author Unknown

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. – The Crow, written by James O’Barr, David J. Schow, and John Shirley, 1994

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, 22 February 1756

The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. – Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 199

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Author Unknown

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. – Oscar Wilde

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

Only 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 Goethe

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. – Orison Swett Marden

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow