Bereavement Quotes

139 Bereavement quotes by 108 unique authors

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over… — Anne Lamott
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got… — C.S. Lewis
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible… — Francine Prose
It was the meanest moment of eternity. — Zora Neale Hurston
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. — Pablo Neruda
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for… — Daniel Handler
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we… — Joan Didion
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too… — Jane Hamilton
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft. — William Shakespeare
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the… — Jodi Picoult
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my… — Lurlene McDaniel
The death of a beloved is an amputation. — C.S. Lewis
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the… — Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me.… — Maria V. Snyder
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting… — R A Salvatore
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my… — Victoria Hanley
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes

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