Bereavement Quotes - Page 7

• Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.

  Maureen Hunter

  Memories, Grief, Heart

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• Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

  Roland Barthes

  Sad, Grief, Suffering

  "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.

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• What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

  Gail Caldwell

  Missing Someone, Grief, Simple

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.9, Random House

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• The death of a beloved is an amputation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Amputation, Beloved

  "All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead review - an inspiring memoir, never sentimental" by Claire Messud, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2016.

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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 McDaniel

  Lying, Long, Earth

  Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Hit and Run”, p.180, Laurel Leaf

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• How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Hate, Heart

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Loss, Numbness

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Attention, Care, Way

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• my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

  Pablo Neruda

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Feet

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, One Day

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Strength, Grief

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Goes On, Want, I Realized

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “Nothing Was the Same”, p.114, Vintage

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• Grief makes one hour ten.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

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• 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 Oates

  Grief, Forever, Firsts

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Flames, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4233, Delphi Classics

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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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

  Achievement, Comforting, Together

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• 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, Temptation

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

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• 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, Said

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

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• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Reflection, Blood

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Blessed, Reality

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• It was the meanest moment of eternity.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Moments, Eternity

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

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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