* Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. ~ Edmund Burke
* Death ends a life, not a relationship. ~ Mitch Albom
* Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be… ~ William Wordsworth
* In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
* He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
* Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. ~ Lillie Langtry
* Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ~ Rossiter Worthington Raymond
* Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~ Kahlil Gibran
* We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer
