How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement. — Joan Aiken 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
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. — Ambrose Bierce 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
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
“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
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
“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
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“her skilled use of her body, especially her eyes and hands, when communicating with people enabled millions sense she was a conduit… — Tony Walter Copy Share Image
How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have… — Dorothy Ferguson 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
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
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
“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it,… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae 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
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . .… — Coleman Dowell 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Isn't she doing this too? Connecting and disconnecting. Facing grief then turning from it. One minute she is caught up in minutiae.… — Sarah Rayner Copy Share Image
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Sustained, complicated grief is hard- & yes, potentially dangerous- ANYTHING worthwhile in life holds a certain measure of risk to it- and… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
