Sympathy Quotes - Ideal For Sympathy Cards

Famous Sympathy Card Quotes

Keepsakes Etc has developed an extensive list of Sympathy Quotes perfect for including in your sympathy card. Also, Sympathy Quotes are ideal for sharing on social media.

The following 100 Sympathy Quotes are appropriate for the Loss of a Mother, Father, Son, Daughter, or Friend:

The light has gone out of my life. – Theodore Roosevelt
For some moments in life there are no words. - David Seltzer
Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. - Hebrews 13:5
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson
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. - Leo Buscaglia
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 Ingalls Wilder
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. - Matthew 5:4
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer
Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever. - Unknown
Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn. - Unknown
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
We pray the love of God enfolds you during your journey through grief. We send you thoughts of comfort. - Unknown
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. - Unknown
Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment. - Unknown
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. – Unknown
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain
We’ve shared our lives these many years. You’ve held my hand; you’ve held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears – yet for a moment, we must part. - Unknown
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. – Thomas Aquinas
Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories. - Unknown
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. - Isaiah 41:10
So say it loud and let it ring. We are all part of everything. The future, present, and the past. Fly on proud bird. You’re free at last. - Charlie Daniels
The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. – Helen Keller
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust
Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment. – Author Unknown
The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found. – Author Unknown
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. – Isaiah 43:2

Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow - Unknown
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence Budington Kelland
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain. - Unknown
There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world. - Unknown
When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important. - Bill Shoemaker
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Unknown
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller
Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal - Thomas Moore
May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us. - Unknown
Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind. – Unknown
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi
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. -Kahlil Gibran
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philemon 4:7
Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II
The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on. - Unknown
There’s magic in a mother’s touch, and sunshine in her smile. There’s love in everything she does to make our lives worthwhile. We can find both hope and courage just by looking in her eyes. Her laughter is a source of joy, her works are warm and wise. There is a kindness and compassion to be found in her embrace and we see the light of heaven shining from a mother’s face. - Unknown
And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day. - Unknown
May you find peace and joy with each butterfly that passes by, knowing that your baby lives on in the hearts of all [he/she] touched. - Unknown
Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was. - Hebrew Proverb
The morning glory blooms but for an hour and yet it differs not at heart from the giant pine that lives for a thousand years -Teitoku Matsunaga
When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know. - Unknown
Every time a tear forms in your beautiful eyes, look up to the heavens and there you will see me, smiling down from God’s glorious skies. - Injete Chesoni
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir
The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found. - Unknown
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. - Unknown
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. - Psalms 18:28
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
Parents hold their children’s hands for just a little while … but their hearts forever. - Unknown
What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28

Religious Sympathy Quotes

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. - Henry Rollins
Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was. – Hebrew Proverb
The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them. – Demoustier
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. - Jesse Jackson
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Claudia Ghandi
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy. - Unknown
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. - Malcolm Forbes
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
A human life is a story told by God." - Hans Christian Andersen
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture, dignity and love. - John Milton
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. - Eileen Elias Freeman
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus
You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. – Mandy Hale
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts. - Dorothy Ferguson
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. – Maya Angelou
In Memory of a life so beautifully lived...a heart so deeply loved - Author Unknown
Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. - Unknown
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. - Dante
Your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. - Unknown
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum
Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you. - Unknown

Loss Of Mother

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. - Thomas Campbell
A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever. - Unknown
It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the love of God heal you as the burden in your heart abounds. - Unknown
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
What moves through us is a silence, a quiet sadness, a longing for one more day, one more word, one more touch. We may not understand why you left this earth so soon, or why you left before we were ready to say good-bye, but little by little, we begin to remember not just that you died, but that you lived. And that your life gave us memories too beautiful to forget - Author Unknown
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. - William Cullen Bryant
Flowers grow out of dark moments. - Corita Kent
My Mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune. - Graycie Harmon
Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. - Rita Schiano
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets
A gift for such a little while, your loss seems so wrong, you should not have left before us it’s with loved ones you belong. - Unknown
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. - William Penn
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. – Robert Louis Stevenson
The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on. – Author Unknown
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed, and very dear. - Unknown

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