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“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.”

Thinking Kind Found Loss Numbers Gone Study Awareness Dues Existential Impressive Bereavement Confrontation Widows Widowers

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.”

Wells Seems Might Loses Claims Affliction Bereavement Eccentric Presumption

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.”

Book:Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series

Source: Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series

“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.”

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“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.”

Remember Jesus Names Prayer Sin Morning Sorrow Affection Evening Disciple Anguish Remorse Bereavement Parting Sanctity Evening Prayer

Book:A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“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.”

Shows Heaven Hours Prayer Tears Scene Constant Association Bereavement

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

Source: Fantastic voyage II: destination brain

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

Wealth Bereavement

Author:Joan Aiken

“Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.”

Loss Attachment Bereavement Inseparable

Author:Mason Cooley

“No one is exempt from grief.”

Grief Sadness Bereavement

Book:Wicked

Source: Wicked

“A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

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Author:Rossiter W. Raymond

“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.”

Giving May War Left Prayer Behinds Atheism Duty Hero Victim Bows Left Behind Bereavement Homage

Author:Adolf Hitler

“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.”

“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.”

Happens Age Life Is Boards Bad Things Realising Unfair Unjust Bereavement

Author:William Boyd

“Dreams are more powerful than facts.”

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.”

“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.”

Giving May Ends Spirit My Own Taken Comfort Mercy Perseverance Leaving Humble Wounds Gods Will Bereavement Pledge Great Gifts Leaving Him

Book:Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman

Source: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman

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

Pain Existence Certainty Bereavement Pain Death

Book:A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

“Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.”

Humans Death Mystery Profound Human Life Grieving Bereavement Initiation Happy Love

Author:William Ralph Inge

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

Author:Washington Irving

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

Forget Duty Sorrow Solitude Refuse Wounds Heal Grieving Cherish Funeral Affliction Divorced Bereavement

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume

“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!”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Years I Can Book Next Doubt Written Havens Normal Grieving Bereavement Time Off

Author:J. K. Rowling

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

Grief Bereavement

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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.”

Children Stills Found Lost Language Parent Not Sure Fascinated Bereavement Hebrew

Author:Colum McCann

“I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that.”

Loss Policy Proud Deserve Grateful Generous Grieving Employee Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Bereavement Extended Family Deserve Better

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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.”

Men Decision Awareness Holy Crisis Moved Ill Mortality Crap Bereavement

Author:Oliver Robinson

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

Mind Body Happiness Grief Depression Adversity Grieving Sympathy Beneficial Bereavement Power Of The Mind Griefing Sympathy Condolences Grief Comfort Help With Grief Body Temperature

Author:Marcel Proust

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

Source: Selected poems

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”

Dream Mother Desire Beauty Fulfillment Dreams Come True Our Dreams Bereavement Being Beautiful

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

Love Life Fun Healing Land Survival Bridges Bereavement Our Town

Book:The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“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.”

Way Heart Mean Persons Moving Grief Missing Strange Rivers Optimistic More Time Bereavement Missing Someone Strange Things Optimistic Person

Author:Michelle Williams

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

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Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“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.”

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

Heart Death Loss Half Funeral Bereavement

Book:Mercy

Source: Mercy

“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.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“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.”

Should Heart Doe Said Faces Dies Names Speak Voice Memories Greater Sorrow Cost Profession Heal Loved Ones Fades Sole Extinction Bereavement Abode Time Heals

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“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.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“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.”

Knows States Conditions Loneliness Blind Corruption Bitter Permanent Contempt Bereavement Nothing New Bitter Love

Author:Gregory Maguire