quotes about Bereavement
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Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
-- Anne FadimanSource : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan
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Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
-- C. S. Lewis -
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
-- Erich Fromm -
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.
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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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.
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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.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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.
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
-- James Martineau -
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
-- Jane Welsh CarlyleSource : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883). “Letters and Memorials...”
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Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
-- Joan Aiken -
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.
-- Joyce Carol OatesSource : "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.
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I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
-- Judith McNaught -
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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.
-- Judy Blundell -
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 -
A break up is the closest thing to bereavement
-- Lindsey KelkSource : Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.34, HarperCollins UK
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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 McDanielSource : Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Hit and Run”, p.180, Laurel Leaf
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Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
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.
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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. Salvatore -
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
-- Sarah DessenSource : Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.129, Penguin
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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.
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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.
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And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.
-- Tom Lehrer -
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.
-- Victoria HanleySource : Victoria Hanley (2010). “The Seer And The Sword”, p.10, Random House
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
-- Washington Irving -
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
-- Roland BarthesSource : "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
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The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.
-- Jane Wilson-HowarthSource : Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.375, Bradt Travel Guides
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When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
-- William Boyd