Sympathy is compassion or sorrow for someone's misfortune. A reaction to stress or a response to feeling pity for another person. May these inspirational sympathy quotes and sayings inspire you to bring solace by being a gentle and supportive presence, listening actively, offering a kind word or a helping hand, and reminding them that they are not alone.
1. “Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.” – Bram Stoker
2. “Nothing will ever take away our memories. May your memories be ones that give you comfort and reminders of happier times.” – Catherine Pulsifer
3. “Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.” – Sri Chinmoy
4. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
5. “When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” – Bill Shoemaker
6. “Our words are useless unless they come from the bottom of the heart.” – Mother Teresa
7. “It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack. But no one can rate a burden's weight until it has been on his back.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
8. “Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.” – Victoria Schwab
9. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
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10. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
11. “When there are no words to say, but know that I'm always here for you.” – Danielle Duckery
12. “Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” – Eric Micha'el Leventhal
13. “Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.” – Kate Chopin
14. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
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15. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Hold tight to memories for comfort, lean on your friends for strength, and always remember how much you are cared about.” – Anonymous
17. “There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella
18. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
19. “Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” – Thomas Aquinas
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20. “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
21. “Walk with me for a while, my friend. You in my shoes, I in yours. And then let us talk.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
22. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Anonymous
24. “There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.” – Oscar Wilde
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25. “Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.” – Neil Gaiman
26. “May the love of God heal you as the burden in your heart abounds.” – Anonymous
27. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
28. “We pray the love of God enfolds you during your difficult times and he helps you heal with the passage of time.” – Anonymous
29. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
30. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Anonymous
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31. “Sympathy extended to another is the expression of the human heart demonstrating that love is true and wholesome.” – Byron R. Pulsifer
32. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” – Corita Kent
33. “Research tells us that individuals heal and bounce back faster if they can voice their feelings and feel the support of caring souls.” – Robbie Miller Kaplan
34. “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” – Victor Hugo
35. “You must look forward because if you don't, you'll be stuck. You'll become a victim who longs for sympathy and you wouldn't want to go there.” – Noel Rosos
36. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
37. “You can help your loved one through their hardships by being there for them. By showing them how much you care and are thinking of them.” – Michelle Pommells
38. “For some moments in life, there are no words.” – David Seltzer
39. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
40. “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moore
41. “Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” – Ovid
42. “Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.” – Orison Swett Marden
43. “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
44. “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
45. “However you choose to show sympathy, that you know someone is experiencing a loss and that you care is almost always better than saying and doing nothing. Your response, whether verbal, written, or visual, indicates that you care about other people.” – Carol Fredericks Ebeling
46. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” – John Steinbeck
47. “Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you.” – Rossiter Raymond
48. “The season of mourning, like spring, summer, fall and winter, will also pass.” – Molly Fumia
49. “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
50. “When I am lonely, I think of you and all that you brought to my life. Your memory rests gently on my soul.” – Cindy Adkins
51. “Those who live in our memories are never truly gone.” – Anonymous
52. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
53. “Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.” – Anonymous
54. “It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Sujish Kandampully
55. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
56. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
57. “Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there.” – Mitch Albom
58. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne
59. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Khalil Gibran
60. “From the end spring new beginnings.” – Pliny the Elder
61. “When a person that departs from this earth never truly leaves, for they are still alive in our hearts and minds.” – Mixbook
62. “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves
63. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” – Helen Keller
64. “You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.” – Mandy Hale
65. “We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” – William Wordsworth
66. “When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Epigram
67. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. “It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
69. “There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.” – Dante Alighieri
70. “We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” – Confucius
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2. “Nothing will ever take away our memories. May your memories be ones that give you comfort and reminders of happier times.” – Catherine Pulsifer
3. “Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.” – Sri Chinmoy
4. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
5. “When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” – Bill Shoemaker
6. “Our words are useless unless they come from the bottom of the heart.” – Mother Teresa
7. “It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack. But no one can rate a burden's weight until it has been on his back.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
8. “Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.” – Victoria Schwab
9. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
11. “When there are no words to say, but know that I'm always here for you.” – Danielle Duckery
12. “Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” – Eric Micha'el Leventhal
13. “Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.” – Kate Chopin
14. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
16. “Hold tight to memories for comfort, lean on your friends for strength, and always remember how much you are cared about.” – Anonymous
17. “There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella
18. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
19. “Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” – Thomas Aquinas
21. “Walk with me for a while, my friend. You in my shoes, I in yours. And then let us talk.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
22. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Anonymous
24. “There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “May the love of God heal you as the burden in your heart abounds.” – Anonymous
27. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
28. “We pray the love of God enfolds you during your difficult times and he helps you heal with the passage of time.” – Anonymous
29. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
30. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Anonymous
More Sympathy Quotes for a Friend and a Family Member
31. “Sympathy extended to another is the expression of the human heart demonstrating that love is true and wholesome.” – Byron R. Pulsifer
32. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” – Corita Kent
33. “Research tells us that individuals heal and bounce back faster if they can voice their feelings and feel the support of caring souls.” – Robbie Miller Kaplan
34. “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” – Victor Hugo
35. “You must look forward because if you don't, you'll be stuck. You'll become a victim who longs for sympathy and you wouldn't want to go there.” – Noel Rosos
36. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
37. “You can help your loved one through their hardships by being there for them. By showing them how much you care and are thinking of them.” – Michelle Pommells
38. “For some moments in life, there are no words.” – David Seltzer
39. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
40. “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moore
41. “Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” – Ovid
42. “Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.” – Orison Swett Marden
43. “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
44. “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
45. “However you choose to show sympathy, that you know someone is experiencing a loss and that you care is almost always better than saying and doing nothing. Your response, whether verbal, written, or visual, indicates that you care about other people.” – Carol Fredericks Ebeling
46. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” – John Steinbeck
47. “Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you.” – Rossiter Raymond
48. “The season of mourning, like spring, summer, fall and winter, will also pass.” – Molly Fumia
49. “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
50. “When I am lonely, I think of you and all that you brought to my life. Your memory rests gently on my soul.” – Cindy Adkins
51. “Those who live in our memories are never truly gone.” – Anonymous
52. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
53. “Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.” – Anonymous
54. “It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Sujish Kandampully
55. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
56. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
57. “Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there.” – Mitch Albom
58. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne
59. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Khalil Gibran
60. “From the end spring new beginnings.” – Pliny the Elder
61. “When a person that departs from this earth never truly leaves, for they are still alive in our hearts and minds.” – Mixbook
62. “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves
63. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” – Helen Keller
64. “You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.” – Mandy Hale
65. “We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” – William Wordsworth
66. “When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Epigram
67. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. “It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
69. “There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.” – Dante Alighieri
70. “We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” – Confucius
Share these Meaningful Sympathy Quotes and Phrases for Loss with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.