Bereavement Quotes - Page 8

• In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Loss, Thinking, Numbers

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

  Kristina McMorris

  Love You, Thinking, Light

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• You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, House, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• Grief is itself a medicine.

  William Cowper

  Death, Pain, Grief

  Charity

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• It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Grief, Mean, Want Something

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• "Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Grief, Dark

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.89

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• 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 almost unbearable weight of her loss.

  Robert Wiersema

  Loss, Perfect, Parent

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• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Loss, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

  Lindsey Kelk

  Break, Closest

  Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Fashion, Husband

  "The Women", Aphorism 79,

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Francine Prose

  Trying, Mystery Of Death, Impossible

  Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Shows

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

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• I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

  James Martineau

  Life And Love, Heart, Grieving

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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• I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

  Marge Piercy

  Grief, Twilight, Wind

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• When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.

  Giles Andreae

  Grief, People, Giving

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• Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Inspiration, Rocks, Rivers

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• Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Regret, Grief

  "Dawkins: Evolution Is ‘Not A Controversial Issue’". CNN Interview, link.kplr11.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye.

  Lene Marlin

  Goodbye, Condolences, Heaven

  Song: A Place Nearby, Album: Playing My Game

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• Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Littles, Cordelia

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.369

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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

  Disappointment, Soul, Sorrow

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• 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

  Hate, Grief, Sins Not

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