Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. — Rita Schiano Copy Share Image
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement. — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .” — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect… — Elizabeth Berrien 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
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it.… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
“I was walking along one day and smacked into this wall called hope deferred and depression and...grief. And it wouldn't budge. After… — Ashley Nikole 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
“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
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
“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
“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
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving 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 accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long…” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/gordon-allport-29384_accidents_the-dog-in-pavlov-s-experiments-does-not_1383042.png)
