Bereavement Quotes
If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.
May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.
There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.
What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to go on. It is a feeling that we have what we need to continue our journey to the next moment.
You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.
Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.
Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.
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.
Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.
When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.
Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.
Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.
Death and parting are the same.
He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.
The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.
There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it.
I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect myself from the uncertainties of the world.
We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.
I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.
It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.
The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don't have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how we spend our time.
...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.
You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart, and your own internal wisdom that will lead you in the direction you need to go.
I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.
Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.
Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.
Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.
The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.
There is no right or wrong way to grief. There is only one way - your way!
Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.
But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.
We do not have control over many thingsin life and deathbut we do have controlover the meaning we give it.
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.
I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .
Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....
They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.
