If your friend or loved one has suffered a loss, wether tragic or expected, use the condolences quotes to express your sympathy & support.
If you need more quotes to help you understand and mourn the loss, take a look at this list of grief quotes and this list of healing quotes.
Condolences Quotes
“Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.” – Unknown
“Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you, dear.” – Author Unknown
“My heartiest sympathy goes to you. Today, we mourn together as we both have lost a very special person in our life. RIP!” – Unknown
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“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 Graham
“Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove the ceaseless sufferings of the world.” – Sri Chinmoy
“We are with you through this difficult time.” – Unknown
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“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” – Confucius
“You might be wondering why they had to go, you want them back with you and this is very understandable. Be willing to stand back while they continue on this new journey after life.” – Unknown
“Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” – Rita Schiano
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.” – Orison Swett Marden
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” – Ovid
“Don’t let go of the memories, death is not the end of your happiness. You can still take so much pleasure in the memories you made with them while they were alive.” – Unknown
“Had I not loved so much I would not hurt so much. I will hurt. And I will be grateful for that hurt for it bears witness to the depth of our meaning. And for that I will be eternally grateful.” – Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” – Robert Ingersoll
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” – Oscar Wilde
“Crying will surely not bring them back but it would help you through the grief because you can never truly forget the ones you love. You can however cry yourself back to joy.” – Unknown
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
“Memories are the one place we can visit those we’ve lost. Since memories are portable, we can take our lost loved ones with us anywhere at any time.” – Unknown
“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Renee Wood
“I know you are in no mood for reading all these words of sympathy. But just know that you have a friend who is equally saddened by the loss.” – Unknown
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to FEEL the loss.” – Mandy Hale
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.” – Meister Eckhart
“Death is the most certain of all that can happen to anyone. Yet we can’t help feeling sad when someone close to us is taken. Accept my condolence!” – Unknown
“My [mom/nana] is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.” – Graycie Harmon
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus
“At this difficult time in your life, we pray that God will grant you the peace that you need to get through this. Sincere condolences!” – Unknown
“When there are no words to say, but know that I’m always here for you.” – Danielle Duckery
“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
“Things must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“Even if I forget everything else, I will always remember you. You were the best. You were true to me. Rest in peace!” – Unknown
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“I never knew how painful it is to lose someone until death took you away from me. RIP, my dear!” – Unknown
“I am so saddened that you are no more; you were a blessing to us. RIP.” – Unknown
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” – Nigella Lawson
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” – Pat Schweibert
“Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.” – Samuel Smiles
“When I am lonely, I think of you and all that you brought to my life. Your memory rests gently on my soul.” – Cindy Adkins
“Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies.” – Caitlin Doughty
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Longfellow
“May the soul of the dearly departed rest in peace, may my prayers help guide her on her journey to our Creator.” – Unknown
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Please accept my heartfelt condolences, words cannot begin to express the sadness you are feeling right now, God rest his soul.” – Unknown
“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
“Dark days seem like they never end, but they are just like any other day. The clouds will clear up, you will find reasons to cheer up, the birds will sing again, so hold on.” – Unknown
“The absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like a dream. — Hwang Sok” – Yong
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoyevsk
“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
“Our condolences to you and your family on the passing of your aunt. May our friendship and prayers ease you through this difficult time.” – Unknown
“A human life is a story told by God.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn.” – Native American Poem
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” – Emily Brontë
“We must embrace our pain and burn it as a fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“May the memories of your loved one give you strength in the days that lie ahead.” – Unknown
“No person is every truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved, Echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts.” – Unknown
“When you find yourself weeping for what you have lost, remember that you are weeping for someone who blessed you with joy. How lucky we are to have all known such a wonderful person.” – Unknown
