Welcome to our collection of Sympathy Quotes, where we gather heartfelt words and expressions of compassion to help you convey your condolences and support during times of grief and loss. Sympathy is a universal emotion that transcends language and boundaries, and these quotes capture the essence of empathy and understanding that we feel for those who are going through difficult moments in their lives.
Losing a loved one or witnessing someone else’s pain can be an incredibly challenging experience, and it’s during these times that expressing sympathy becomes essential. Whether you’re looking for the right words to send in a sympathy card, a message to share with a friend, or just seeking inspiration to offer comfort, our collection of sympathy quotes is here to assist you. Below, you will find a selection of touching quotes on this topic that you can easily copy, place on an image, or enhance with stylish fonts to create a message that truly resonates with your feelings of sympathy and support.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere – in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys. Ryuichi Sakamoto
I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass. Sun Yat-sen
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. Joyce Carol Oates
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. Morrie Schwartz
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people’s positions. Peter Asher
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 Wordsworth
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. George William Norris
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. Xenophon
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. Thomas Aquinas
At a family’s most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one’s sacrifice and service. Dave Reichert
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! Henry Austin Dobson
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. Lillie Langtry
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
The only cure for grief is action. George Henry Lewes
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. Morrie Schwartz
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. Haruki Murakami
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie
Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire
A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. Alfred Lord Tennyson
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. Homer
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. James Russell Lowell
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. William Shakespeare
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. Marlo Thomas
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. Jean Giraudoux
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins
From the end spring new beginnings. Pliny the Elder
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving
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
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. Orison Swett Marden
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. P. J. O’Rourke
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. Dirk Benedict
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. Cristiano Ronaldo
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them – you don’t even have to talk. You don’t have to do anything but really be there with them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The cure for sorrow is to learn something. Barbara Sher
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. Charles Henry Parkhurst
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. Ovid
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. Jean Paul
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Robert Southey
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo
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. Khalil Gibran
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream. Thomas Francis Meagher
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. Donald Cargill
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools – intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it – this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. W. E. B. Du Bois
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning
Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. Keanu Reeves
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. Florence Nightingale
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? Trai Byers
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Arthur Schopenhauer
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. Jerome K. Jerome
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Evelyn Underhill
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. Tara Brach
The dew of compassion is a tear. Lord Byron
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. George William Russell
Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action. Andy Dunn
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. Benjamin Disraeli
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. Malcolm Forbes
As a mentor, you have to be willing to put yourself in your mentee’s shoes to understand their struggles that they deal with. It’s not supposed to turn into a pity party by any means, but empathy speaks volumes to a mentee in need of help rather than forced sympathy. Tobias Harris
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. Billy Graham
Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy. Charles M. Schwab
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. William Wordsworth
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. James Martineau
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to ‘defend’ animals. Douglas Murray
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. Desmond Tutu
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Ann Landers
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone’s position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dave Reichert
When you’ve been raised in care, rap music isn’t just about guns and sexism. They’re talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It’s not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. Samantha Morton
One often calms one’s grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. Steven Curtis Chapman
To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. Willa Cather
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
