Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source;… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“Hope comes in the form of synchronicities. When one even occurs and is followed by another, which is in complete alignment with… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One by one, drops fell from my eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still… — Maria V Snyder Copy Share Image
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. — Anne Grant Copy Share Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Did I waste my kisses, my love, my passion, and are they wasting theirs? God says, 'Nothing is ever wasted, Jim.” — Penelope Przekop Copy Share Image
That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I see we have a problem.’ Lucas gripped her other arm and gave her a non-too-gentle shake. ‘Are you in a relationship?… — C.C. MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world.… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on… — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
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