Bereavement Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Memories, Farewell, Love And Friendship

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Legacy: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.237, Wizards of the Coast

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• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Agony, Suffering, Desire

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Omnipotence, Giving

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• Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Inspirational, Strength, Grief

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, p.379, MIRA

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• May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.

  Adolf Hitler

  Prayer, War, Hero

  "Voices of History, 1942-43" edited by Franklin Watts, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., (p. 202), 1943.

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• I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

  Judith McNaught

  Grief, Believe, Can Not

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Once and Always”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Bitter, Blind

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• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  Soccer, New Year, Football

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• A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

  Allan Gregg

  Goodbye, Dying, Months

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• We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition of striving to bring together people and communities where we do business. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and many others impacted by this natural disaster; our prayers and thoughts are with all the families who have lost loved ones.

  Howard Schultz

  Prayer, Lost Love, Condolences

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• They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Summer, Art

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Lying, Love Is

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grief, Joy, Quiet

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, First Avenue Editions

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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Hate, Grief

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  William C. Bryant

  Sympathy, Grief, Should Have

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

  Anne Fadiman

  Matter, Serious, Pens

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan

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• No one is exempt from grief.

  Gregory Maguire

  Grief, Sadness

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Precious Friends

  Sonnet 30

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely in your job and relationship. In your 30s, work-related issues and break-ups feature prominently. In your 40s, for women bereavement is often an issue. For men, it is still to do with their job but it has moved to "Holy crap, I've got a lot to do". In your 50s, you get features of both early and later life crises - bereavement and ill health. And that continues in your 60s, with retirement-related issues and heightened awareness of mortality.

  Oliver Robinson

  Men, Decision, Awareness

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Giving, Touching

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

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• 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, Language

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Grieving

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