Sympathy Quotes

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Grief is a heavy burden. Families that are grieving for their dear ones who departed, or for a missing member, find it difficult to hold back their tears. At such a time, words of solace can provide a healing touch.

Offering Condolence at Funerals

When a dear one has departed, you can extend your condolences with kind words. You may feel that words are hollow and don't do much to alleviate sorrow. However, your support can help the grieving family gain strength. If words seem empty, back them up with generous acts. Perhaps you could offer some assistance to the family. Or maybe they would appreciate your involvement in the funeral arrangements. You could even stay back after the ceremony to help the family get back to routine life.

Sympathy for a Dear One Who Has Gone Missing

If your friend or relative has gone missing, do every bit to help find them. Offer to talk to the local police, or help trace friends who last met the missing person. At the same time, express words of hope and encouragement. You could also help the grieving family get on with their lives to bring some normalcy. Don't speak of negative outcomes, even if you feel they are likely. Miracles happen, especially if you have faith. If you find the grieving family despairing, help them stay optimistic.

Don't back out on promises. Even if you are not in a position to help the family, you can always send encouraging quotes about life. Let them know how you feel for their sorrow. If you are religious, you can also say a special prayer, asking God to help your loved ones through their difficult times.

Offer Words of Support to a Heartbroken Loved One

Heartbreak can be very depressing. If your friend is going through a bad patch in her love life, you can be the pillar of support. Your friend may need more than just a shoulder to cry on. If you find your friend slipping into a vortex of self-pity and depression, help her overcome the grief. Use these breakup quotes to brighten her mood. Or you can cheer her up with funny breakup quotes.

Brooding often causes a person to despair. Take your friend to a mall, or a funny movie, to cheer her up. You could even help a friend who's suffering from chronic depression by allowing her to break some chinaware. It can be a great release to fling the china pots and plates on the ground and watch them break into smithereens.

When you feel that your friend has overcome her sadness, help her rebound by introducing her to new people. She may find new friends a refreshing change, and who knows she may be ready to date again.

Sympathy Quotes Offer Solace to the Grief Stricken

Words may seem empty, but sometimes they are the best balm for the grieving soul. These sympathy quotes offer stability, hope, and strength. They remind us that life is good, and we are blessed. There is a silver lining to every grey cloud. Happiness and sadness are integral to life; they make us resilient, compassionate, and humble. Use these sympathy quotes in funeral speeches, obituaries, or in condolence messages. Express your grief eloquently; teach others how to stand tall during tough times. Stay dignified in moments of crisis.

Corrie Ten Boom
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Marcel Proust
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Thomas Moore
With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

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

Edmund Burke
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Kahlil Gibran
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

John Galsworthy
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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

Julie Burchill
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Leo Buscaglia
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.

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.

Ann Landers
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Voltaire
Tears are the silent language of grief.

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