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We're all of us, always on the edge of bereavement. — Lisa Mannetti

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

Embrace the pain — Jude Gibbs

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 ... — Khalil Gibran

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Rumi

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

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

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; — William Cullen Bryant

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

Now I'm back, it's a bit strange. When I left I was younger than Ben, now I'm older than he'll ever be. — Susan Leona Fisher

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle. — Stacey Urrutia

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

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. — Euripides

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare

Bereavement in Texas is a time to pull out your best recipes. — Lisa Kleypas

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

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

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. — Elizabeth Berrien

Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

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. — Richard Dawkins

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

My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living. — Pablo Neruda

Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process. — Elizabeth Berrien

It's being without him that I'll never get used to. — Christopher Buecheler

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

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

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

He stood for a moment, bereavement a sudden, small tear in his soul. — Diana Gabaldon

We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it. — Elizabeth Berrien

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. — Elizabeth Berrien

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

Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb. — Robert A Berezin

Attachments and bereavements are inseparable. — Mason Cooley

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. — Meg Donohue

{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. — Alice Walker

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

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. — Hilary Mantel

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. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love. — Susan Barbara Apollon

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. — Kate McGahan

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. — Ambrose Bierce

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

It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving. — Nathalie Himmelrich

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world. — Elizabeth Berrien

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through. — Olivia Newton-John

A Bereavement? Franzen's posthumous novel? — Edan Lepucki

The death of a beloved is an amputation. — C.S. Lewis

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart. — Elizabeth Berrien

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

We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich

I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart. — Michael Chabon

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary. — Susan Barbara Apollon

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman

Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse. — Rebecca McNutt

In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter. — Martin Amis

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement — Lindsey Kelk

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
— Emily Dickinson

It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement. — Sara Baume

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch

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

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do. — Ann Benjamin

Death and parting are the same. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel. — Charmaine Smith Ladd

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

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M.F.K. Fisher

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement. — Allan Gregg

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. — Christina Rasmussen

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone's fickle brain . . . — Brian M. Holmes

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. — Solange Nicole