Best Bereavement Words

139 Bereavement quotes by 108 unique authors

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. — Judith McNaught
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if… — Terry Pratchett
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. — Judy Blundell
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where… — D. H. Lawrence
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. — Gail Caldwell
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate. — Aberjhani
One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she… — Lisi Harrison
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think… — Kristina McMorris
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process… — Lynne Truss
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The… — Suzanne Collins
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you… — James Patterson
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty. — Aberjhani
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence… — Neil Gaiman
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence,… — Joyce Carol Oates
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why… — Kay Redfield Jamison
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that… — Henry David Thoreau
That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone… — Suzanne Collins
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness — Erich Fromm
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where… — Suzanne Collins
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps… — C.S. Lewis
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is… — Mark Twain
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have… — William Boyd

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