Bereavement Quotes
139 Bereavement quotes by 108 unique authors
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As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her…
— Unknown Author
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"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there…
— Alexander MacLaren
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This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we…
— J C Ryle
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Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away,…
— Carrie Jones
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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.…
— Gordon W. Allport
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Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this?…
— J C Ryle
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Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
— C.S. Lewis
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the…
— Margery Allingham
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I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure…
— Tom Dunne
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Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
— Richard Dawkins
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When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something…
— Giles Andreae
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Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
— John Milton
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I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
— Marge Piercy
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We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition of striving to…
— Howard Schultz
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always…
— Robert Fulghum
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your…
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Bereavement Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 139 Bereavement Quotes, led by these top contributors: