Sympathy Card Quotes

The most difficult of all expressions is the expression of grief which you feel for someone else. This is the reason why, it is often difficult to come up with the right kind of words for a sympathy card. Most are dubious about how to go about letting out their thoughts and feelings in the form of words. Sympathy card quotes need not be flowery or exaggerated. Genuine and humble thoughts are all that it takes to let the other person know that you are there to share his tears and help wipe them.

What to Write in A Sympathy Card

Sympathy quotes help in adding meaning to what you want to express. So go through some of the following sayings and chose the ones which, you suppose, would be appropriate for the loss or grief your loved ones are suffering from.

"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

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil." - John Taylor

"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

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other." - Leo Buscagli

"And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile." - John Henry Newma

"Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was." - Hebrew proverb

"Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." - Anonymous

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

"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality" - Emily Dickinson

"Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again." - George Eliot, The Choir Invisible

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. " - Isaac Asimov

"God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality." - Jacques Rigaut, Pensées

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. " - Jean de La Fontaine

"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath." - John Donne

"But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
To give you, what can you receive from me?
Only the friendship and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey's end." - T.S. Eliot

"Peace, peace! He is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awakened from the dream of life ... 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife." - Percy Shelley

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." - Helen Keller

"We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love." - Madame de Stael

"Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax." - Philip Dow

Remember, when it comes to express your support and care for someone who is grieving, all you have to do is pour out your heart and let the person know you are there to help and share the burden.