“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
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so… — James Patterson 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
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely… — Oliver Robinson Copy Share Image
“Everything assumes a different intensity when you are feeling the pain of loss. Be prepared. A minor annoyance that you might once… — Elizabeth Berrien 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
“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
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
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart,… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“A bereavement club. You don’t choose to join it; it’s thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“We all need hope. As souls, we journey in physical bodies, traversing a life that is dually lived. We experience safety through… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition… — Howard Schultz 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
“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
“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
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
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
“He said my name aloud, but he was asleep. I crawled into his hospital bed with him again as best I could… — Piper Winifred Copy Share Image
However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“After a significant loss, it's tempting to live life in the past - wishing it had been different, screaming that it was… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
