Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement. — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .” — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Letting go’ sounded like such an easy thing to do...but actually involved a lot of pain.” — Kathy Shuker Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the loss of a loved on but I can feel it when what it is to miss a loved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I always wanted, and my wife Clara, we lost our daughter Maude to sepsis in 2011. We're part of bereavement charities but… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
“Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your… — Beth Lincoln Copy Share Image
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Filling ourselves and living with the energy of love feels wonderful. And because this energy resonates at a high vibrational level, it… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the… — Rob Guinan Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I love to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
