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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.”

Knows Firsts Remember Hours Grief Known Forever Minutes Events Evidence Bases Series Bereavement Devastation Inconsequential

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“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”

Knows Want Wanted Goes On I Realized Bereavement

Book:Nothing Was the Same

Source: Nothing Was the Same

“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.”

Knows Way Care Attention Pay Attention Know Yourself Bereavement

Author:Suzanne Collins

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“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.”

Mind Body Pain Courses Loss Answers Gone Cry Bereavement Numbness His Loss

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Giving Passion Given Capacity Bereavement Omnipotence Grief Observed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Heart Children Remember Hate Growing Constant Tiny Ghost Fats Awful Bereavement Toddler

Book:The Casual Vacancy

Source: The Casual Vacancy

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”

Love Suffering Imagination Grief Darkness Sorrow Bereavement Saying Goodbye

Book:The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”

Believe Care Death Used Causes Grief Accepting Dying Reputation Bereavement Rules For Radicals

Author:Saul Alinsky

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

Inspirational Pain Challenges Grief Journey Positive Overcoming Adversity Embrace Grieving Positive Attitude Fuel Broken Heart Grief And Loss Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Encouraging Heartbroken Be Patient Bereavement Coping Being Strong Grief And Healing Condolences Love And Loss Griefing Losing Someone Losing A Loved One My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Joy And Pain Adversity In Life Sympathy For Loss Uplifting In Hard Times Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Death And Grieving Death And Loss Cancer Courage Grief Healing Help With Grief Grief And Hope Inspirational Cancer Inspirational Grief Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Cancer And Hope Comforting Death Grieving And Healing Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Healing From Loss No Pain No Gain Words Of Comfort Grief And Loss Inspirational Mourning A Loss

Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”

Mother Time Loss Mom Motherhood Bereavement Being A Mom Being A Mother Mothering Comforter

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

World Death Used Night Fall Loss Hell Missing Broken Walking Heartbreak Distance Absence Holes Used To Be Grieving Breakup Goodbye Broken Heart Lost Love Farewell Life And Love Bereavement Missing Someone Saying Goodbye Missing You Long Distance Daytime Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship I Miss You Griefing Missed You Losing A Loved One Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Lost Ones Long Distance Love I Missed You Long Distance Relation Your Absence Good Long Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship Love Short Long Distance Relationship Farewell Friend Strong Long Distance Relationship New Long Distance Relationship Sad Long Distance Relationship Missing You Love Love And Lost Long Distance Relationship Motivational We Will Miss You Lost Loved Ones Will Miss You I Will Miss You Love Is Lost Heal A Broken Heart Someone You Miss Saying Goodbye Love Love And Miss You Missing A Person Hole In My Heart Lonely World

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

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

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

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

Grief Circumstances Depression Proportion Bereavement Postpartum Depression

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

Christian Death Grief Guilt Painful Mourning Companion Bereavement Mourn Griefing Death Grief Grief And Death Grief And Mourning Death And Mourning Death Mourning Mourning Death Painful Death Guilt Free

Author:Coco Chanel

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

Ifs Should Heart Soul Body Answers Grief Dying Flower Remains Seeds Grieving Mourning Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Remembrance Bereavement Memorial Mourn Condolences My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Condolence Message Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Condolences Poems Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Khalil Gibran

“And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”

Source: Lyra apostolica

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?”

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757

“Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

Life Is Death Love Is Military Limits Eternal And Love Sight Grieving Immortal Horizon Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Bereavement After Death Passing Away Life After Death Condolences Love And Death Near Death Losing A Loved One My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Love Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Those Grieving Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Death And Grieving Grief Comfort Death And Loss Condolence Message Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy Comforting Death My Condolences Death Remembrance Comfort The Grieving Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Sympathy And Love Death And Mourning Heaven And Death Grief And Loss Inspirational Memorial For Loved One Our Condolences

Author:Rossiter W. Raymond

“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.”

Knows Men Wells Two Age Life Is Knowing This Life Seventies Bereavement Heartbreaking Verge

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Grief makes one hour ten.”

Hours Grief Ten Grieving Bereavement One Hour Griefing Losing Someone Losing A Loved One Grief Comfort

Book:The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)

Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)

“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.”

Heart Grows Memories Grief Higher My Heart Stronger Deeper Grieving Where You Are Bereavement Griefing My Love For You Come Back To Me Heart Melt

Author:Maureen Hunter

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

Pain Death Loss Grief Wise Words Sorrow Medicine Cures Grieving Remedy Bereavement Sorrowful Losing Someone Losing A Loved One

Author:William Cowper

“Grief is a process, not a state.”

States Process Grief Grieving Bereavement

Author:Anne Grant

“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.”

Has Beens Seems House Left Ultimate Extraordinary Possession Coffee Cups Manifestation Simplest Bereavement Stains Coffee Cup

Book:Mrs. October was Here

Source: Mrs. October was Here

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

Needs Heaven Goodbye Bereavement Saying Goodbye Condolences Condolence Message My Condolences

Author:Lene Marlin

“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.”

World Desire Suffering Speak Sin Example Poet Proud Dare Command Agony Be Proud Anguish Positively Bereavement Fear Of Death Parting Sufferers

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

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

“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.”

“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.”

Heart Joy Natural Emotion Tears Flow And Love Delight Absence Impression Intense Generous Grieving Reverence Bows Life And Love Bereavement Poignant

Author:James Martineau

“When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

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

“Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.”

Ifs Challenges Mountain Overcoming Remove Trust In God Hiking Bereavement Trust No One

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”

“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.”

Source: Solitude: A Return to the Self

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

Children Grief Sorrow Mourning Grief And Loss Bereavement Mourn Condolences Griefing Deceased Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Grief Comfort Help With Grief Losing Love Our Condolences Deep Grief

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“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.”

Want Mean Chance Perfect Grief Building Structure Curious Bees Want Something Bereavement Ants Chances Are

Author:Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”

Memories Grief Affection Sympathy Bereavement Widowed

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.”

Want Life Is Suffering Grief One Thing Bereavement Sufferings In Life

Author:Debbie Ford

“A man is not completely born until he is dead.”

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

Ifs Love Feels May I Can Helping Pain Suffering Lovers Universal Separation Exception Pairs Bereavement Grief Observed Pain Of Separation

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“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.”

“For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.”

Death Night Bereavement Precious Friends

Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

Whole Stories Death Forget Grief Modern Fashion Husband Details Distress Bereavement Mourn Speechless Dazed Modern Woman

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts”

World Heart Moments Left Our World Infant Bereavement Footsteps Miscarriage Condolence Message Stillbirth

Author:Dorothy Ferguson

“A break up is the closest thing to bereavement”

Break Closest Bereavement

Book:Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York

Source: Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York