Life is uncertain, and some things can scare us for life. In times of grief and sorrow, it's critical to be there one for another and to support the ones who are in great pain. Losing someone in life is hard, and you can't do anything about it. You only know for sure that heaven gained an angel. Whoever is grieving for the lost one, find a way to soothe their pain. These quotes for condolences can inspire you and can be helpful both to you or someone else who is desperate. In times like these, it's of the utmost importance to know what exactly to say, so read these quotes for condolences, and try to find hope in them.
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"When you have lost someone that you love, you gain an angel that you know." — Unknown.
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"Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world." — Jean Paul Richter.
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"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil." — John Taylor.
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"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart." — Mahatma Gandhi.
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"He spoke well of those who said that graves are the footprints of angels." — Henry Longfellow.
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"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same." — Unknown.
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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose... All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." — Helen Keller.
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"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure." — Unknown.
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"Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow." — Rita Schiano.
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"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity." — Terri Guillemets.
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"You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss." — Mandy Hale.
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"The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she's finally found." — Unknown.
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"Say not in grief "he is no more" but in thankfulness that he was." — Hebrew Proverb.
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"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us." — Unknown.
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"Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn." — Native American Poem.
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"Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts." — Dorothy Ferguson.
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"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again." — Maya Angelou.
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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." — Emily Dickinson.
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"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us." — Orison Swett Marden.
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"It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationships, it is also an affair of the soul." — Thomas Moore.
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"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies." — William Penn.
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"The absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like a dream." — Hwang Sok-Yong.
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"Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry." — Dr. Seuss.
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"Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove the ceaseless sufferings of the world." — Sri Chinmoy.
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"And with the morn those angel faces smile which I have loved long since and lost awhile." — John Henry Newman.
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"Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that in a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one." — Ann Druyan.
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life." — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"Whoever you hold in the heart of you, is forever and always a part of you." — Rossiter Raymond.
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller.
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"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in times of sorrow." — Robert Louis Stevenson.
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"The Remembrance of the good done to those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them." — Demoustier.
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"Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed, and very dear." — Unknown.
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"Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." — Rossiter Worthington Raymond.
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"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." — Cardinal Cottage.
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"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to us." — Meister Eckhart.
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"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." — Thomas More.
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"No person is ever truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved. Echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts." — Richard Fife.
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"He who has gone, so we cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, may, more present than the living man." — Antoine De Saint Exupéry.
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"And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief." — William Cullen Bryant.
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"We've shared our lives these many years. You've held my hand; you've held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears, yet, for a moment, we must part." — Unknown.
Summary
These 40 "heaven gained an angel" quotes can help anyone who has experienced the loss of the loved one. They should lift your spirits and help you move on and overcome your pain. The angel you have lost would certainly be sad if you cry over them too much, so smile for them, as much as you can, and use these quotes for condolences to help everyone feel better.