Bereavement Quotes - Page 6

• The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Pain, Existence, Certainty

  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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• There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

  John Henry Newman

  Perseverance, Taken, Humble

  John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]

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• One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Grief, Grieving, Calm

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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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

  Age, Boards, Unjust

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• Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Prayer, Condolences, Heart

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• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grief

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• Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Attachment, Inseparable

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

  Joan Aiken

  Wealth

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• 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.

  James Martineau

  Prayer, Heaven, Tears

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.56

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• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  Michelle Williams

  Missing Someone, Grief, Moving

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, Reality, Mind

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Eternity, Hours

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.221, University of Illinois Press

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• [S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

  Anne Lamott

  Buddhist, Love You, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (1997). “Crooked Little Heart”, Pantheon

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• When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

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

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Grief, Proportion

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Sadness, Parent, Going Away

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• I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sibling, Eye, Dark

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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• For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

  Lynne Truss

  Pain, Book, Emotional

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.newyorker.com. 2003.

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• It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

  Coleman Dowell

  Coffee, House, Cups

  Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Grief, Tears

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• 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 Hanley

  Grief, Gone, Finished

  Victoria Hanley (2010). “The Seer And The Sword”, p.10, Random House

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• Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Hate, Heart

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.12, Lulu.com

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