234 Quotes About Bereavement

What if grief is not a consequence of love but another expression of it? What if our deep sorrow is a reflection of deep connection? There is no grief with- out attachment, investment, and some kind of emotional bond. The fact that we grieve is evidence of how completely we are able to love.

The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

Life is all memories. People may not be present in body, but they are with us in spirit.

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

I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.Verse XXVII

grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the bella house that blows into the airat the slightest gustthat buries itself deep in the groundwhile everyone is sleepinggrief is a house where no one can protect youwhere the younger sisterwill grow older than the older onewhere the doorsno longer let you inor out

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.Verse VI