Condolence Sayings

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. - Julie Burchill

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll

With what a deep devotedness of woe wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! - Thomas Moore

When he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. - Eileen Elias Freeman.

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know that are happy. - Author Unknown

Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -Richard Bach

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor

Heaven is a place nearby, so there’s no need to say goodbye. - Lene Marlin

Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests, on shores of sand and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand! - Robert Sexton

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. - Khalil Gibran

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

Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. - Edward Young