It is never easy to cope with the death of a loved one. What is worse is standing there helplessly, watching your loved ones suffer knowing there is nothing you can do about it. Death works like that. We can do nothing to reverse it no matter how hard we wish to. Everyone’s days on this Earth are limited, and they will have to go when their time comes.
But even in this time of hollow darkness, words can be the guiding touch light that one might need to live again. Our words can pierce a soul or provide it valor to live again. When someone you know is suffering from an inevitable loss, and when you find yourself at a disadvantage in finding the right words to express your support, you can use some of these famous quotes to help your loved ones with their struggles. No matter how hard the task is, choosing the right words can always smooth things out for those in need.
Below are quotes from some of the most famous personalities, who also found themselves in the same spot as you. Use their words to write a sympathy card or to simply show your support for those grieving.
Famous Condolences Quotes
Following are some of the most heart-touching quotes by famous people which can uplift the soul of anyone suffering from a grave loss. Add these to your cards to show how much you care for them.
There is no death. Only a change of worlds
Unknown
You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to FEEL the loss
Mandy Hale
Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you, dear
Unknown
The Remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them
Demoustier
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
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity
Terri Guillemets
Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was
Hebrew Proverb
The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on
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
Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn
Native American Poem
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us
Helen Keller
What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality
Emily Dickinson
Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts
Dorothy Ferguson
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again
Maya Angelou
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart
Mahatma Gandhi
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in a time of sorrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color
W.S. Merwin
Grief is the price we pay for love
Queen Elizabeth II
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief
Aeschylus
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew
Henry Rollins
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be
Nigella Lawson
Famous Hopeful Condolences Quotes
We all perceive death according to our own understanding. For some people, it is the end of everything while for others, it is the star of a new beginning. You can use these hopeful condolence quotes by famous people to make those suffering believe that no matter what, their loved ones will always stay alive in their hearts.
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil
John Taylor
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels
Henry Longfellow
Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you
Rossiter Raymond
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
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity
William Penn
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoyevsk
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
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again
Maya Angelou
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression
Confucius
Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle
Stacey Urrutia
We must embrace our pain and burn it as a fuel for our journey
Kenji Miyazawa
No person is ever truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved, Echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts
Richard Fife
However long the night, the dawn will break
African Proverb
It is not length of life, but depth of life
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain is certain, suffering is optional
Buddha
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death
Leonardo Da Vinci
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good
Ovid
From the end spring new beginnings
Pliny the Elder
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us
Orison Swett Marden
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter W. Raymond
Tears are holy. They do not mean one is feeble. They are the sign of power
Washington Irving
Sobbing is blessed. It does not mean one is pathetic. It is the symbol of energy
Washington Irving
If you want to sleep happily, spend your day happily. If you want to die happily, spend your life happily
Leonardo da Vinci
The strongest have their moments of fatigue
Friedrich Nietzsche
They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.William Penn
Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
Long Famous Condolences Quotes
If you are looking for something which is more than a word or two, these long famous condolence quotes are what will meet your expectations perfectly. Use these quotes to better express your grief and support.
You don’t get over it, you just get through it. You don’t get by it because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t ‘get better’ it just gets different. Everyday grief puts on a new face
Wendy
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
My [mom/nana] 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
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
Elizabeth Gilbert
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one
Dean Koontz
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss
Cassandra Clare
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
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures
Gail Caldwell
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
Benjamin Franklin
There are no words. While you have joy knowing where your love is in a better place, there is sadness in the loss and grief. You are in our prayers
Catherine Pulsifer
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
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
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
Joy and sorrow tell you a lot about yourself and your purpose in life. It is only by these one knows what one should accept and what one should avoid
Johann Wolfgang von
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Khalil Gibran
Famous Religious Condolences Quotes
Religion always provides us with a soft corner in everything. In Religion, even in death, there is hope. Hop to live eternally, hope for the ending of all sorrows, and hope to be able to one day meet again. For those suffering from the loss of a loved one, there is no greater comfort than knowing that one day, they shall meet again. The only thought at which they will rejoice again is the thought of seeing the face of those they lost again. You can use the following Religious quotes that are famous for those who need something to hold on to so they do not get lost in the valley of grief.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it
Victor Hugo
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble
Psalm 46:1
Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you
Hebrews 13:5
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest
Matthew 11:28
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
For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness
Psalms 18:28
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus
Philemon 4:7
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted
Matthew 5:4
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
May the love of God heal you as the burden in your heart abounds
Unknown
We pray the love of God enfolds you during your journey through grief. We send you thoughts of comfort
Unknown
May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us
Unknown
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well
Adabella Radici
Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
Rita Schiano
To Bid A Farewell
Saying farewell to someone is undoubtedly the toughest thing to do. Your heart feels heavy and the air stops flowing through your lungs, as you see the body of your beloved lying there, lifeless. This is not the time when one seeks advice on how to cope with grief or what to do in life.
Instead, one looks for words of comfort. Anything that can provide them with a little hope to live. Always remember to be kind and gentle. It costs us nothing but it is priceless for someone who is dealing with a hard time. A little condolence note, a small gift, or just soothing words can take up a big space in someone’s heart. If you cannot find the words on your own, don’t worry, borrow the words of these famous personalities to rightly convey your condolences.
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