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Share these sympathy quotes with anyone experiencing grief and loss. Write these inspirational quotes in a card or use them to find comfort of your own.
Condolences (from Latin con (with) + dolore (sorrow)) are an expression of sympathy to someone who is experiencing pain arising from death, deep mental anguish, or misfortune. [ 2 ] When individuals condole, or offer their condolences to a particular situation or person, they are offering active conscious support of that person or activity.
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
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"My love of God is greater than my fear of death." [182] [183] — Cecil Pugh, GC, MA, Congregational Church minister (5 July 1941), asking to be lowered into the hold of the sinking SS Anselm, where injured airmen were trapped. Pugh then prayed with the men until the ship sank. "Love the immaculate, love the immaculate, love the immaculate." [184]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
"I extend my condolences to the Dinkheller family, especially Kyle's parents and his wife and his two children." [136] — Andrew Howard Brannan, American murderer (13 January 2015), prior to being executed for the murder of Kyle Dinkheller "My body is on fire. No one should go through this... They poked me five times. It feels like acid." [137]
The real lesson of this story. Jeremy remembers one last heartfelt moment with his father. On the way to the game, Jeremy was just so dang happy his father went.