Bereavement Quotes
139 quotes by 114 authors
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to…
— Julie Burchill
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care…
— Saul Alinsky
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their…
— James Martineau
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
— William Ralph Inge
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some…
— Anthony Storr
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
— Debbie Ford
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
— C.S. Lewis
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A break up is the closest thing to bereavement
— Lindsey Kelk
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I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks…
— Joe Mahoney
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune…
— James De Mille
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When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green…
— John O'Donohue
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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the…
— Khalil Gibran
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I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in…
— Libba Bray
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Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places…
— Patti Davis
Who Wrote These Bereavement Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 139 Bereavement Quotes, led by these top contributors: