Sympathy Quotes

Sympathy quotes are profound statements that sum up a depth of truth and feeling in just a few words. Look to quotes to help add the perfect touch to your card or letter.

If you've been asked to share a few words at a memorial service or even if you need to prepare a eulogy or an obituary, sympathy quotes can help you express your heart. Copy any of these quotes and use freely.

Sympathy Quotes for Encouragement

The angels are always near to those who are grieving,
g to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.

-Eileen Elias Freeman

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.

-Kahil Gibran

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

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

-John Taylor

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

-Thomas Campbell

Quotes About Death

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

-William Penn

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

-From a headstone in Ireland

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children
and the younger Generation. For they are us, our bodies
are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

-Albert Einstein

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

-Leonardo Davinci

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

-Leonardo Davinci

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on the earth.

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

-Seneca

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

-William Penn

A human life is a story told by God.