Sympathy proverbs

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◆ A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer99

◆ 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 Graham99

◆ There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

- Dante Alighieri99

◆ I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie99

◆ Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

- Thomas Aquinas99

◆ Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom99

◆ Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

- Robert Southey99

◆ Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

- Hilaire Belloc99

◆ Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire99

◆ Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

- Marcel Proust99

◆ There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

- Aeschylus99

◆ When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

- Cristiano Ronaldo99