Sending a sympathy card or expressing your condolences can be hard when you’re at a loss for words. It’s never easy finding the right message to convey your emotions when a loved one endures a difficult time period or the loss of a loved one.
However, expressing your sympathy and letting your friend or family member know that they can count on you is a necessary gesture.
You can use sympathy quotes or condolence messages, when sending your heartfelt sympathy card. You can also use these messages for thank you cards for essential workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The following sympathy quotes will help guide your words that reminds the recipient of your love and support.
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Sympathy Quotes

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.” – Charles Henry Parkhurst
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.” – Oscar Wilde
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“To sympathize with the suffering of others forges understanding, but that doesn’t mean they’ll put up with you.” – Benson Bruno
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” – Walt Whitman

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world. – Sri Chinmoy
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Renee Wood
“Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.” – George Saunders
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.” – Bram Stoker
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.” – Jean Giraudoux
“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
“Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.” – Sri Chinmoy
“A human life is a story told by God.” – Hans Christian Anderson

“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.” – Charles Darwin
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” – Khalil Gibran
“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.” – Rumi
“Grant but memory to us and we lose nothing by death.” – John Whittier

“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Baily Aldrich
“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
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” – Victor Hugo
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” – Confucius
“Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.” – Unknown

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“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
“Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.” – Ouida
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.” – Oscar Wilde
Condolences Quotes
“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” – Joni Mitchell
“The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” – Demoustier
“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.” – Norman Cousins

“Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moore
“The light has gone out of my life.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Anne L. de Stael
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.” – Erich Fromm
“Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.” – Jean Paul Richter
“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.” – Rachelle E. Goodrich
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” – Hellen Keller

“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you.” – Rossiter Raymond
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown
“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
“We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.” – Unknown

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4 (NIV)
“Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.” – Sir Walter Scott
“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
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” – Thomas Aquinas
“The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.” – Proverbs 10:7 (ESV)

“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi
We hope these sympathy quotes help you express your feelings, whether you are currently grieving or expressing condolences to someone else. Be gentle with yourself throughout this process. Your loss will always hurt, but things will get easier with time.