Words of Condolence
When you are feeling grief or pain, you often need to hear words of condolence to get you through. Sometimes the right words of condolence can make the difference between a particularly depressing day and something that can be seen as just another challenge. Keep these words of condolence handy for your own life and to share with others when they’re in pain.
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Chinese proverb
“I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” Sir T.F. Buxton
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” Irish proverb
“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
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” Kenji Miyazawa
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” John Taylor
“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 Raymond
“He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died. ”
Thomas Love Peacock
“Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” William Penn
“Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.” Mitch Albom
“”A man’s death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.” John Berger
“In the midst of life, we are in death.” The Book of Common Prayer
“Only time itself reveals the hearts of men.” Chinese proverb
“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” Henry Ward Beecher