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Condolence
- I am so deeply sorry for your loss, (name) was a truly special person to me and I will never forget the moments we shared.
- It seems so cruel to lose one so dear. Time may dull the pain, but we will never forget (name). Please accept my condolences.
- Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your ..
- Always in our hearts.
- Even on your darkest days there is an angel by your side to guide you along the way.
- His/her memory will always be in our hearts.
- His/her love will light the way.
- Every life has an impact on this world.
- We will all miss..., he/she touched so many lives.
- We join all of you in your sorrow.
- I wish you peace and healing.
- I am sending you a hug and my love through this note.
- Special thoughts and heartfelt prayers are with you and your family during this time of sorrow.
- Wishing you as much peace as possible during this difficult time.
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway
- No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. - Author Unknown
- I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.- Author Unknown
- 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 that a thought apart. For as long there is a memory, they’ll live on in our hearts. - Author Unknown
- To laugh often and much, to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world. - Ralph Waldorf Emerson
- After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. - Helen Steiner Rice
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prevert
- May the concern and sympathy of those who care help you through this difficult time.
- Our thoughts are with you and your family at this time of sorrow.
- With heartfelt condolences and kindest thoughts in your time of sadness/ sorrow.
- Wishing you comfort and peace at this time of sorrow.
- Please know our loving thoughts embrace you.
- May the peace that comes from the memories of love shared comfort you now and in the days ahead.
- Our hearts are filled with sorrow.
- We are sharing your sorrow.
- With heartfelt condolences.
- All things grow in time except for grief.
- To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die.
- Nothing can ever take away the love a heart holds, dear fond memories linger every day, remembrance keep them near. - Author Unknown
- May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. - Irish Blessing
- Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. - Author Unknown
Grief
- Tears water our growth. - Shakespeare
- There are times when there are too few words left to heal us, when what we wish for is to be carried, when all we have left is the hope that tomorrow will be a more gentle place to land than today.
- If you're going through hell, keep going. - Churchill
- Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. - Dan Rather
- You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the future. - Jan Glidewell
- Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys. - Alphonse de Lamartine
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. - Christian Bovee
- There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. - Turkish Proverb
- Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire
- Grief makes one hour ten. - Shakespeare
- Bereavement unravels like a piece of cloth, the fabric of your life over time you will be able to reweave your piece of cloth, but the cloth will have a new pattern. - Unknown
- Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Irish Headstone
- Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. - Shakespeare
- Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists - Antonio Porchia
- Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Time is a physician that heals every grief. - Diphilus
- Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? - Author Unknown
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. - Charles Dickens
- Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir
- Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. - Albert Smith
- What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. - Jewish Proverb
- The 'gift' of grief is that it presents us with the opportunity to heal and grow. - Jewish Proverb
- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Tibetan Proverb
- Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II
Inspiration
- Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
- We are all vulnerable to the unexplored. - Talamud
- To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. - Eclesiastes
- 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
- Say not in grief 'he is no more' but in thankfulness that he was. - Hebrew Proverb
- When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
- When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.- Native American Proverb
- The journey is the reward. - Chinese Proverb
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
- When hearts listen, angels sing.
- We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. - Chekov
- Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. - St Francis de Sales
- Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Proverb
- 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
- 'Tis after death that we measure men. - James Barron Hope
- To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. - Thomas Campbell
- Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flowers wither but the seed remains. - Kahlil Gibran
- Those things that hurt instruct. - Benjamin Franklin
- Friendship doubles our joy and divides our pain. - Swedish Proverb
- Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same person. - Blaise Pascal
- Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and be able to grow - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. - Rossiter Worthington Raymond
- What is lovely never dies, But passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- 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
- You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Glidewell
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prévert
- May the sun shine, all day long, everything go right, and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true. - Irish Blessing
- Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. - Author Unknown
- A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. - Author Unknown
- Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
- Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. - Unknown
- Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. - Unknown
- Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it. - Vincent Van Gogh
Memories
- Every goodbye is the birth of a memory. - Dutch Proverb
- Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. - Rosa Parks
- Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles R. Swindoll
- Fond memories brings the light of other days around me. - Thomas Moore
- A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. - Edward de Bono
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. - Charles Baudelaire
- Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. - Shakespeare
- The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal. - Cicero
- Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what some small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. - Pierce Harris
- Cherish all your happy moments: they are a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington
- In memory everything seems to happen to music. - Tennessee Williams
- Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. - Patricia Hampl
- How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. - Christina Baldwin
- Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. - Jessamyn West
- I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life. - Amelia E. Barr
- Memory – the very skin of life. - Elizabeth Hardwick
- Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. - Oscar Wilde
- Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are. - Dostoyevsky
- Memory is a man’s real possession … in nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith
- They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buechner
- He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they are called memories. Some take us forward, they are called dreams. - Jeremy Irons
- A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. - Anna Mary Robertson Moses
- It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe – though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now because it’s in the past, because we have survived. - Susan Sontag
- We do not know the true value of our moments unitl they have undergone the test of memory. - Georges Duhamel
- We do not remember days; we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese
- Memory is the mother of all wisdom. - Aeschylus
- I remember when (your memory) and this will be with me forever. (Name) changed my life forever and I will never forget.
- A memory is a keepsake of time that lives forever in the heart.
- There is a special place in our hearts carved out for our memories.
- The memory of a good person is a blessing.
- As long as we live, they too will live; for they are now are a part of us; as we remember them. - Jewish Prayer
- Death leaves a heartache no-one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Irish Tombstone
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Author Unknown
- On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. - Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. - Author Unknown
Close Relationships
- When you speak of him/her speak not with tears for thoughts of him/her should not be sad. Let memories of the times you shared give you comfort for his/her life was rich because of you. - Author Unknown
- Why is it that people come into our lives? When I met (name) I was (description) and his/her (special characteristic) and friendship made my life more complete. I am a better person for it!
- I will miss you more than words can say. You have been an important part of my life.
- I am sorry that I hadn't got to tell you how much I loved you - it was difficult for me. Now that you are free to fly with the angels, I hope you will look back and know how important you are to me.
- Your time was so brief it was our fortune to be so blessed.
- What I feel right now is so hard to put into words.
- If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. - Author Unknown
- Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart. - Author Unknown
- May you find comfort in the arms of an angel.
- If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.
- Real love stories never end.
- I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new, I thought about you yesterday and days before that too. I think of you in silence I often speak your name, all I have are memories and your picture in a frame. Your memory is my keepsake with which I'll never part. - Uknown
- God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart. - Unknown
- We've shared our lives these many years. You've held my hand; you've held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears - yet for a moment, we must part. - Unknown
- Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so - T'was heaven here with you. - Isla Paschal Richardson
- Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon. - Ogden Nash
- As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. - Author Unknown
- Your dexterous wit will haunt us long, Wounding our grief with yesterday, Your laughter is a broken song; And death has found you, kind and gay. We may forget those transient things, That made your charm and our delight, But loyal love has deathless wings, That rise and triumph out of the night. So, in the days to come, your name, Shall be as music that ascends, When honour turns a heart from shame…O heart of hearts! O friends of friends! - Siegfried Sassoon
- Come to me in my dreams, and then by day I shall be well again! For then the night will more than pay the hopeless longing of the day. - Matthew Arnold
- In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes. - Izumi Shikibu
- Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts. - Dorothy Ferguson
- The love that I have is all that I have, And the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have, A rest I shall have, yet death will be but a pause, For the peace of my years in the long green grass will be yours and yours and yours. - Leo Marks
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St Vincent Millay
- If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Claudia Ghandi
- Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. - A.A. Milne
Children
- Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever. - Author Unknown
- A gift for such a little while, your loss seems so wrong, you should not have left before us it's with loved ones you belong.
- The agony is great and yet I will stand it. Had I not loved so much I would not hurt so much. But goodness knows I would not want to diminish that precious love by one fraction of an ounce. 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
- The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on. - Author Unknown
- Parents hold their children's hands for just a little while .. their hearts forever - Author Unknown
- A person is a person no matter how small. - Dr Seuss
- Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment - Author Unknown
- There's magic in a Mother's touch, and sunshine in her smile. There's love in everything she does to make our lives worthwhile. We can find both hope and courage just by looking in her eyes. Her laughter is a source of joy, her works are warm and wise. There is a kindness and compassion to be found in her embrace and we see the light of heaven shining from a Mother's face. - Author Unknown
Religious
- Until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. - Irish Proverb
- Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A human life is a story told by God. - Hans Christian Andersen
- God is closest to those with broken hearts. - Jewish Proverb
- God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces - Author Unknown
- When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. - Author Unknown
- Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. - Author Unknown
- God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
Other
- If I should go tomorrow, it would never be goodbye, For I have left my heart with you, so don't you ever cry. The love that's deep within me, shall reach you from the stars, you'll feel it from the heavens, and it will heal the scars. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. - Author Unknown
- Don't be sad - I am in a snowflake, I am in the rays of sun, I am in the sparkling of stars. - Author Unknown
- Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. - Buddha
- If you live each day of your life right, you have nothing to fear. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- We run after values that, after death become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. - Author Unknown
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. - William Penn
