Top 25 Bereavement Quotes of 56 - Page 3

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

George C. Lorimer

God, Disappointment, Bereavement

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 282), 1895.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Francine Prose

Bereavement, Trying, Mystery Of Death

Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

Colum McCann

Children, Parent, Bereavement

Source: www.omnivoracious.com

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

Children, Eye, Bereavement

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.63, Faber & Faber