“He stood for a moment, bereavement a sudden, small tear in his soul.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. — Rita Schiano Copy Share Image
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
“All the sorrows of life are bearable if only we can convert them into a story.” — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes - and long after I was sure of it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
“I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“If suddenly you do not exist, if suddenly you no longer live, I shall live on. I do not dare, I do… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all… — Anna White Copy Share Image
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
