1. Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

- Sri Chinmoy

2. Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

- Joni Mitchell

3. 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

4. Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

- Charles Darwin

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

- Anne L. de Stael

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

- Maya Angelou

7. To sympathize with the suffering of others forges understanding, but that doesn’t mean they’ll put up with you.

- Benson Bruno

8. 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 Wordswrth

9. Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

10. 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

11. Grant but memory to us and we lose nothing by death.

- John Whittier

12. Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

- Sir Walter Scott

13. One has to all the time feel others’ sufferings as one’s very own. Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness.

- Sri Chinmoy

14. Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

- Thomas Aquinas

15. He will cover you with his feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

- Psalm 91:4, NIV

16. There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

- Oscar Wilde

17. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- George S. Patton

18. The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

- Proverbs 10:7 (ESV)

19. A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Anderson

20. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

- Khalil Gibran

21. Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

- Jean Giraudoux

22. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

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

- John Taylor

24. The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Hellen Keller

25. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Helen Keller

27. Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

28. It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

- Oscar Wilde

29. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

- Hariet Beecher Stowe

30. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

- Rachelle E. Goodrich

31. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

- Walt Whitman

32. Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

- George Saunders

33. If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

- Oscar Wilde

34. To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

- Erich Fromm

35. Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

- Victor Hugo

36. Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.

- Laura Ingles Wilder

37. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.

- Norman Cousins

38. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

- Unknown

39. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

40. Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

- Rumi

41. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.

- Norman Cousins

42. Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.

- Ouida

43. The light has gone out of my life.

- Theodore Roosevelt

44. Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

- Renee Wood

45. We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.

- Unknown

46. Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

- Jean Paul Richter

47. Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people–they always go away sooner or later. You can’t hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

- Bruce Coville

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

- Confucius

49. The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.

- Demoustier

50. Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.

- Unknown

51. Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

- Oscar Wilde