Condolences Quote by Richard Dawkins

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

— Martin Luther

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

— Richard Dawkins

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

— Laura Bohannan

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

— Lord Chesterfield

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

— Edward Gibbon

ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself…

— Etty Hillesum

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

— Sophie Swetchine

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

— Plautus

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

— Thornton Wilder