Top Bereavement Quotes

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of...

Bereavement Definition

(n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

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

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

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.

Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and i...

The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with than...

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you ne...

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

If suddenly you do not exist,if suddenly you no longer live,I shall live on.I do not dare,I do not dare to write it,if you die.I shall live on.For where a man has no voice,there, my voice.Where blacks...

There comes a point in one's life where the people whom we grew up admiring begin to die, leaving a great chasm in the world. This is awful enough to deal with without having anything so annoying as f...

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is...

They don't want to see me lose my home. They want me to come to my senses before it's too late. I need a better way to cope with my feelings of loss and guilt. I need bereavement therapy. Here are som...

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

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

As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the...

Nobody ever goes before their time.

Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.