Bereavement Quotes

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

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.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

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

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

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.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Grief is a process, not a state.

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

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

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

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.

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.

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.