Bereavement Quotes
William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
2256C.S. Lewis
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
4024 Jodi Picoult
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
4432 Maria V. Snyder
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. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
3101 Neil Gaiman
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.
4612 R.A. Salvatore
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 if the flesh is not.
4421 C.S. Lewis
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
3984 William Shakespeare
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
3286 Robert J. Wiersema
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.
1527 Anna White
It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.
1442 Oliver North
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
1569 Anna White
The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were supposed to be the best times of my life. No one whispered in my ear that the best times, the ones that change our lives, are woven with the thread of loss.
2267 Brian M. Holmes
There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.
3319 Brian M. Holmes
I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .
2707 Anna White
I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.
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