1.
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.
Chief Dan George
May the night sky alleviate your sorrow, may the blossoms bring you splendor, may trust perpetually erase your weeping. And, most of all, may quietude give you resilience.
2.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas
Relief can be found through restful sleep, a soak and a tipple.
3.
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.
Barack Obama
4.
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
A. B. Simpson
5.
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
Romain Gary
6.
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.
Mariah Carey
7.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
8.
I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.
Steve Ballmer
9.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
10.
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
Anna Katharine Green
15.
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
Maya Angelou
16.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde
18.
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Liane Moriarty
19.
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
20.
Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.
Jiang Zemin
21.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Khalil Gibran
22.
Sorrow makes us all children again -
destroys all differences of intellect.
The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23.
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
Thomas Paine
24.
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
25.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde
27.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
John Henry Newman
28.
He kept at true good humor'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
29.
Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Edmund Burke
31.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
William Wordsworth
32.
This morning we were notified about the horrible news of the series of terrorist attacks in the United States, that have left a great trail of destruction. Mexico expresses its condolences to the Government and the American people for the irreparable human losses. We also express our energetic condemnation to these attacks. I have informed President George Bush of our feelings of sorrow and our solidarity in such difficult moments.
Vicente Fox
34.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux
35.
Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
36.
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.
Mary Douglas
37.
Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
Margaret Jones
39.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
Madame de Stael
41.
Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye.
Lene Marlin
42.
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Bram Stoker
44.
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
Jacques Chirac
45.
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Henry David Thoreau
47.
I'm like Donatello. For real. You probably want to come play your joints for me get my condolence.
Ab-Soul
48.
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
Sri Chinmoy
50.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Dirk Benedict