Bereavement Quotes
Collection of top 73 famous quotes about Bereavement
Bereavement Quotes & Sayings
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We're all of us, always on the edge of bereavement.
— Lisa Mannetti
Embrace the pain
— Jude Gibbs
The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
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 worldthe 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
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
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
— William Shakespeare
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 lyingAnd 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
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
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
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
{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.
— Alice Walker
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
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
