words of sympathy

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world - Sri Chinmoy.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die - Thomas Campbell.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one - Thomas Carlyle.

He kept at true good humour’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.

To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own - Tryon Edwards.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction - Vergil.