Bereavement Quote by Emma D'Arcy

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

— C. S. Lewis

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

— Anonymous

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

— Dasha Zhukova

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond…

— David Lowery

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

— Rashi

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved…

— Mark Doty

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

— Sophie Swetchine

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.”

— Robert E. Neale

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their…

— Irvin D. Yalom