“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .” — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.” — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He stood for a moment, bereavement a sudden, small tear in his soul.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
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
“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd… — Carole Geithner 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
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset… — Brent Green 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
“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
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
“My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we will have sad… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin 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
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“I wish I could hold time in my hands. I wish I could talk to it. Oh, how I would ask it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image