“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
Sympathy cards
Gentle quotes about loss and grief, short enough to write in a sympathy card.
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”
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“They may not remember what you said. They may not remember what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the soul.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.”