Bereavement Quotes And Sayings

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“When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.”
– John O’Donohue

“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
– John taylor

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”
– Joseph Adison

“There is an hour, a minute – you will remember it forever – when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don’t know – can’t know – that it is the first of a series of “wrongful” events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn’t go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”
– Jude Watson

“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”
– Judith McNaught

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”
– Kahlil Gibran

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“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….”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”
– Katherine Owen

“This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of my mouth. I am not strong enough for this. I want an earthquake, a hurricane, anything – even a devil, the one with the cloven hoof – Mrs. Leed’s unfortunate 13th child – to rush out and stomp on me, break me into little pieces and hurl me to the stars, let me go back with those people I love. Please.”
– Kathleen deMarco

“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.”
– Kay Redfield Jamison

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyasawa

“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”
– Kristina McMorris

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
– KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

“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.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Heaven is a place nearby, so there’s no need to say goodbye.”
– Lene Marlin

“We pray God will Comfort you, And send Angels from above, Giving sweet peace within your heart, Surrounding you with Eternal Love. We are sorry for your deep loss, There’s so little we can find to say, You are in our thoughts and prayers, As we grieve with you today. With Our Heartfelt Sympathy. ”
– Leona Miller

“I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.”
– Libba Bray

“One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line – gather, fall, slide…gather, fall, slide…each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.”
– Lisi Harrison

“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.”
– Lurlene McDaniel

“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
– Marcel Proust

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”
– Maria V. Snyder

“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
– Mary Catherine Bateson

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I did not die.”
– Mary Elizabeth Frye

“Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger……..It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.”
– Maureen Hunte

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