"On the death of a friend, we should……" — Henry David Thoreau

More Bereavement Quotes

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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just… — Julie Burchill
• Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your… — Saul Alinsky
• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of… — Aldous Huxley
• I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more… — James Martineau
• Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which… — William Ralph Inge
• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is… — Anthony Storr
• It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you.… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau
• All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. — Debbie Ford
• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of… — C.S. Lewis
• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory… — Abraham Lincoln

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