Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

I want to join everyone in expressing my great sympathy and support for people who lost loved ones in this terrible terrorist attack [in Orlando] and everybody still in the hospital who is struggling and all the first responders.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

The second worst day of my life was when Thomas Jefferson called on me to pay his condolences.

I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

When my wife's sister passed away, Bernie Madoff came to the funeral. That was the type of individual that we all thought he was - a very caring individual.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.