BOSTON — Two years after the Boston Marathon bombing, and just minutes after a jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the attack, survivors of the blasts reacted online and off with relief, excitement, anguish and an eagerness to move beyond the tragedy and the trial.


Karen Brassard, who suffered grievous leg injuries in the bombings, said she was satisfied with what she felt was a “just conclusion.” Standing outside the courthouse in Boston, she insisted that ”there is nothing happy about having to take someone’s life,” but she said that now the victims will finally be able to get on with their lives.


“It feels like we can take a breath, and actually breathe again.” she said. “Once the verdict came in, it was like, ‘O.K., now we can start from here and go forward, and really feel like it is behind us.’”


Michael Ward, who was an off-duty firefighter that day who helped victims, did not mince words. ”He wanted to go to hell, and he’s going to get there early,” Mr. Ward said outside the courthouse.


Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a ballroom dance instructor who lost a leg during the Boston bombings, was one of the first of Mr. Tsarnaev’s many victims to speak out on the verdict condemning him to death, taking to Twitter to say she was “thrilled with the verdict!”


Another victim, Sydney Corcoran, who suffered shrapnel wounds while the bombing cost her mother both of her legs, praised a decision that, she said, means Mr. Tsarnaev will “be gone from the world. That’s what I want.”


On Twitter, she emphasized that the death penalty was just punishment for all the pain Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, had caused.


Other victims were more muted, neither supporting nor expressing discomfort with the verdict. Many sought to shift the focus away from Mr. Tsarnaev, emphasizing their solidarity with the close friends they made among other victims and emergency medical workers on the afternoon of April 15, 2013.


“Completely numb,” Rebekah Gregory, who lost a leg and testified during the trial, said on Twitter. “And waiting anxiously for the day this is really over. My heart and prayers are with my Boylston Street family.”


Richard Donohue, a transit police officer who was severely wounded in the shootout in Watertown, Mass., four days after the bombing, said that “we can finally close this chapter in our lives.” He added, “The verdict, undoubtedly a difficult decision for the jury, gives me relief and closure as well as the ability to keep moving forward.”


Local officials and prosecutors in a state where the death penalty remains relatively unpopular also said that they hoped that the verdict would aid the victims. They did not endorse the judgment imposed by the jury, but stressed that closure and solace were long deserved.


“Today is not a day for celebration,” said the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz. “It is not a day for political or moral debate. It is a day for reflection and healing.”