A broken heart is a difficult thing to heal. Sometimes the best way to start moving on is to find comfort in the words of others. Here are some sympathy quotes that might help you feel a little better and to heal your heart. Reading these quotes can remind you that you’re not alone, and that there are people that care about you. So if you’re feeling down, take a few minutes to read through these heartfelt messages. You never know, they just might make you feel a little bit better.
Here is a collection of sympathy quotes to make you feel better.
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” —Queen Elizabeth II
“Grief when it comes, it is nothing like we expect it to be.” —Joan Didion
“When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know. When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason.” —Meghan O’Rourke
“Death? Be as proud as you want: bore me later, because Love is sovereign here. Life never ends. Joy comes in the morning. Glory hallelujah. And let it be so.” —Anne Lamott
“Unable are the Loved to die/ For Love is Immortality.” —Emily Dickinson, Poem 809
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” —Gilda Radner
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday.” —Unknown
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” —Leonardo Da Vinci
“May angels lead you in.” —Jimmy Eat World
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.” —Malcolm Forbes
“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.” —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Across the years I will walk with you, in deep green forests, on shores of sand and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand!” —Robert Sexton
“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.” —Rumi
“No, the camera can’t steal the soul. But it can occasionally hold it hostage.” —Unknown
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” —Joni Mitchell
“May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us.” —Unknown
“Grant but memory to us and we lose nothing by death.” —Whittier
“As we go through the journey of life, we must remember that the impressions we leave behind will define who and what we are. They are just as individual as the paths we have chosen to walk. So leave good impressions wherever you go.” —Dave Hedges
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” —Joni Mitchell
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”—Emily Dickinson
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” —Buddha
“There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief.” —Aeschylus
“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
“The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” —Demoustier
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” —Helen Keller
“Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove the ceaseless sufferings of the world.”—Sri Chinmoy
“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted, mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.” —Morgan Matson
“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.” —Rumi
“The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” —Demoustier
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” —Mahatma Gandhi
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