He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.” — Elizabeth Berrien 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
“The closest bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. — Jane Wilson-Howarth 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
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
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
The bereaved are often treated badly. There is no statutory paid bereavement leave, with the emotionally stunned often compelled to work within… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — Jodi Picoult 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
“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
“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
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
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
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is… — Louise Hay; David Kessler Copy Share Image
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact… — Neil Gaiman 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
“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.” — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world.… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on… — Brian M. Holmes Copy Share Image
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
