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Sympathy quotes have a number of uses. They can be used in a flower message card, sympathy card or condolence letter to the family of the deceased. Sympathy quotes can also be spoken to the family of the deceased as part of a eulogy, or when offering condolences at a funeral. Sympathy quotes can be poetry or simple prose that express your compassion for the family of the deceased. See our examples of sympathy quotes below:

Other free sympathy quotes resources you might find helpful:

• "Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked." By Ambrose (c. 333-397)
• "A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well."By Adabella Radici
• "A human life is a story told by God."By Hans Christian Andersen
• "Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." Author Unknown
• "And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since and lost awhile." By John Henry Newman
• "As you comprehend this profound loss, let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens." Author Unknown
• "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." By George S. Patton
• "Death is a Dialogue between, The Spirit and the Dust." By Emily Dickinson
• "Death . . . is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." By Helen Keller
• "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored." By Herman Melville
• "Death is only a larger kind of going abroad." By Samuel Butler
• "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."From a headstone in Ireland
• "Death is the most blessed dream." By Georg Büchner
• "Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe." By Saint Terese of Lisieux
• "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." By William Penn.
• "Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." By C. S. Lewis
• "He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man." By Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God By Aeschylus
• "However long the night, the dawn will break." African Proverb
• "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." By Leo Buscaglia
• "If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time." By Beth Mende Conny

• "In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." By Robert Ingersoll
• "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?" By Benjamin Franklin
• "Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." By Rossiter Worthington Raymond
• "Maybe [deaths] are not exits after all. Maybe they are holes through which something pours in, a love so far beyond our ken that we can only stand there, mute, riven, blessed." By Brian Doyle
• "Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains." By Kahlil Gibran
• "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 that are happy. " Inuit Proverb
• "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." By Eileen Elias Freeman
• "The strongest have their moments of fatigue." By Friedrich Nietzsche
• "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." By George Eliot
• "There is no death. Only a change of worlds." By Chief Seattle
• "They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies." By William Penn
• "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." By Thomas Campbell
• "Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." By Emily Dickinson
• "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." By Kenji Miyazawa
• "When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding." By Helen Keller
• "When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure." Author Unknown
• "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." By Kahlil Gibran
• "While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil." By John Taylor
• "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...." By Wendy Feireisen

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