1. A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer 

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

3. The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. - Washington Irving 

4. 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. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

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

6. I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. - Joseph Addison 

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

8. Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. - Joni Mitchell 

9. 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. - Agatha Christie 

10. The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. - James Russell Lowell 

11. Flowers grow out of dark moments. - Corita Kent 

12. There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. - Jean Paul 

13. The more sympathy you give, the less you need. - Malcolm Forbes 

14. From the end spring new beginnings. - Pliny the Elder 

15. People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers 

16. Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

17. When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. - Cristiano Ronaldo 

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

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

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

21. I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. - Marlo Thomas 

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

23. 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. - Alton Brown 

24. One often calms one's grief by recounting it. - Pierre Corneille 

25. Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. - Morrie Schwartz 

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

27. 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. - Robert Southey 

28. 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. - Jerome K. Jerome 

29. What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich 

30. I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. - Joyce Carol Oates 

31. Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. - Jean Giraudoux 

32. The cure for sorrow is to learn something. - Barbara Sher 

33. 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. - Tara Brach 

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

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

36. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. - William R. Alger