Bereavement Quotes And Sayings

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“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
– Emily Dickinson

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
– Erich Fromm

“I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.”
– Fr Joe Mahoney

“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”
– Francine Prose

“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”
– Gabriel Garci-a Marquez

“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”
– Gail Caldwell

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
– Gandhi

“So long as we live they too shall live and love for they are a part of us, as we remember them.”
– Gates of Praye

“Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Let me come in where you are weeping, friend and let me take your hand. I who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.”
– Grace Noll Crowell

“A human life is a story told by God.”
– Hans Christian Angersen

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
– Henri Nowuen

“We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; — for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. — Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?”
– Henry David Thoreau

“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
– Henry Longfellow

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
– Hilary Stanton Zunin

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
– Iris Murdoch

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
– Irving, Washington

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
– Isaac Asimov

“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”
– James De Mille

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”
– James O’Barr

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”
– James Patterson

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
– Jan Glidwell

“…you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”
– Jane Hamilton

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
– Joan Didion

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
– Jodi Picoult

“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.”
– John Greenleaf Whitter

“And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”
– John Henry Newman

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