Age Quote by William Boyd

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different.…

— Andrew Strauss

When you are young, you don't worry about it. But when you get older, you realise the grief you have caused yourself.

— Colin Jackson

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

“many people who suffer difficult losses exhibit a natural resilience. They hurt deeply, but the hurt passes, and relatively soon after the loss they…

— George A. Bonanno

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

— Anonymous

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

— C. S. Lewis

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

— Anonymous

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

— Robert E. Neale

“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry…

— Harlan Coben

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

— Publilius Syrus

When you've been bereaved, you expect other people to rescue you, but I'm afraid they can't - it's down to you.

— Sheila Hancock