Bereavement Quotes

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  • When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

    Stars   Flames   People  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4233, Delphi Classics
  • The death of a beloved is an amputation.

    "All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead review - an inspiring memoir, never sentimental" by Claire Messud, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2016.
  • When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

  • Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

    Beauty   Mother   Dream  
    Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.107, Icaria Editorial
  • They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

    Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.34, HarperCollins UK
  • Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  • Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

    "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
  • Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

    Dream   Peace   Sleep  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

  • How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

    Children   Hate   Heart  
    J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK
  • Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

    Grief   Heart   Sadness  
  • Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

    Sad   Lying   Love Is  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press
  • The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

    Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  • Grief is itself a medicine.

    Death   Pain   Grief  
    Charity
  • The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

    Pain   Loss   Numbness  
    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.
  • No one is exempt from grief.

    Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK
  • This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

    Hate   Grief   Sins Not  
  • When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

    Men   Two   Knowing  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics
  • There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
  • Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1902). “Complete works”
  • For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

    Sonnet 30
  • There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

    John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]
  • I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

    Grief   Twilight   Wind  
  • I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

    Sibling   Eye   Dark  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.
  • I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

  • It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

    Memories   Heart   Names  
    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan
  • Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

    Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.129, Penguin
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