Bereavement Quotes · Page 3

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

— Edgar Allan Poe

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

— Lindsey Kelk

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

— Judith McNaught

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Everyone copes differently, some cry for the loss of a loved one others smile because they know they'll see them again.

— Anonymous

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I forever lost the person, I held dearer than myself. At that time...My heart might have died along with her

— Hanada Shonen Shi

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

— Iris Murdoch

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect…

— Elizabeth Berrien

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it.…

— Anonymous

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the…

— Anonymous

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of…

— Jane Hamilton

“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

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen,…

— William Boyd

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time…

— Richard Dawkins

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by…

— Tom Dunne

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because…

— Michelle Williams

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

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

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

“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

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired…

— Joan Didion

“We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.”

— Elizabeth Berrien

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

— William Wordsworth

“Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.”

— Elizabeth Berrien

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

— Anne Lamott

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

— Mary Elizabeth Frye

“I know good things have happened, don't mistake an expression of pain for a lack of thankfulness.”

— Ashley Nikole

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

— M. F. K. Fisher

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

— Gail Caldwell

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

— William Shakespeare

The world feels foreign when you're in a state of bereavement, and you also feel foreign to yourself.

— Emma D'Arcy

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't…

— Carrie Jones

May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before…

— Adolf Hitler