Have you got a blank card and don't know what to write? Or you wish to add inspirational words of sympathy to a message or letter? Our sympathy card wording ideas below will help.
Sympathy quotes can also be of comfort to people when they are grieving. It makes the emotions they feel seem universal and it gives a sense that those who have gone before understand.
Feel free to share links to this site to those who have lost a loved one. Written by a nurse with nearly 50 years of experience helping those dealing with death, it is full of useful ways to cope and gain acceptance of a loss.
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Here are some sympathy card sayings and quotes which we have chosen for you.
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With deepest sympathy
With our warmest condolences
May the peace that comes from the memories of love shared comfort you now and in the days ahead.
With thoughts of peace and courage for you
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Our hearts are saddened to hear of your loss.
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
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
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. Unknown
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Author Unknown
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow” -(Robert Louis Stevenson)
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“Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life
in its season, as beautifully as it was taken up.” -(Henry David
Thoreau)
“Those we love remain with us for love itself lives on,
and cherished memories never fade because a loved one’s gone. Those we
love can never be more than a thought apart. For as long there is a
memory, they’ll live on in our hearts.” - Author Unknown
“Whenever you use a person's name it means they are still alive.” Anon
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow." Dan Rather
“Perhaps
they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones
shine down to let us know they are happy.” Eskimo Legend
“Those
we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard,
but always near. Still loved, still missed and very dear.” Unknown
“Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." Author Unknown
“We
never lose the ones we love, for love itself lives on, and the joy we
knew together is never really gone. It lives in precious memories of
those who were so dear, memories that bring comfort and keep our loved
ones near.”
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