Bereavement Quotes

139 Bereavement quotes by 108 unique authors

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
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
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
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
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M.F.K. Fisher
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
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. — Marge Piercy
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
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
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
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. — Anne Grant
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. — Pierre Corneille
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. — Jean de La Fontaine
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — William Ralph Inge
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They… — Washington Irving
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every… — Washington Irving
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. — Samuel Johnson
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse de Lamartine
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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