If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The only cure for grief is action.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

From the end spring new beginnings.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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.

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.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.