Sympathy Quotes and Sympathy Card Sayings

Use these sympathy quotes as words of comfort or for card wording ideas.

He spake 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

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

• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

• A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen

• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

• To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, “Hallowed Ground”

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