Bereavement Quotes And Sayings

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“If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side — if we could know!”
– May, Julia Harris

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
– Mercy Jodi Picoult

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

“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.”
– Neil Gaiman

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.”
– Pablo Nerudo

“It’s okay to Laugh: Laughter is not a sign of “less” grief. Laughter is not a sign of “less” love. It’s a sign that many of our thoughts and memories are happy ones. It’s a sign that we know our dear one would have us laugh. It’s okay to laugh.”
– Patricia Lufty Nevitt

“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.”
– Patti Davis

“Tears are words that need to be written”
– Paulo Coelho

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
– Pierre Auguste Renoir

“Thou has turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.”
– Psalm 30:11-12

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
– Queen Elizabeth II

“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.”
– R.A. Salvator

“Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”
– Rita Schiano

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“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.”
– Robert J. Wiersema

“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
– Rossiter Worthington Raymond

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”
– Santosh Kalwar

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

“For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”
– Shakespeare, William

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — he hath awakened from the dream of life — ‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.”
– Shelley, Percy Bysshe

“I’m not prepared for Rue’s family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”
– Suzanne Collins

“”That what?” “That I knew I misjudged you. That you love him. I’m not saying In what way. Maybe you don’t know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him,” he says gently.”
– Suzanne Collins

“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”
– Suzanne Collins

“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.”
– Terri Guillemets

“She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’
‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
– Thomas Campbell

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
– Thoreau, Henry David

“And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
– Thorton Wilder

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