Bereavement Quotes

Bereavement Quote of the day

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

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

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

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

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.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Grief is a process, not a state.

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

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 arms.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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.

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

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

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 place somebody leaves behind for you.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

No one is exempt from grief.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

Love is love, " I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.