24 Quotes About Condolences

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them. It is not too much to say that ritual is more to society than words are to thought. For it is very possible to know something and then find words for it. But it is impossible to have social relations without symbolic acts.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'