234 Quotes About Bereavement
- Author Darrell Drake
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She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they’d cherished together.She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They’d shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.
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- Author Lynda Cheldelin Fell
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The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
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- Author Anne Somerset
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From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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- Author Ashley Nikole
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I was walking along one day and smacked into this wall called hope deferred and depression and...grief. And it wouldn't budge. After some time, I realized this darkness I'd found myself in was called grief. I'd been through so much trauma, everything about me- including my body, emotions and soul, was shutting down and going into preservation mode. I entered a season where the battle caught up with me and I realized just how badly I'd been beaten and torn up, inside and out.
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- Author Esther Kinsky
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Before bereavement, one might think of 'death' but not yet of 'absence'. Absence is inconceivable, as long as there is presence. For the bereaved, the world is defined by absence.
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- Author Brian M. Holmes
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There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.
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- Author Brian M. Holmes
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I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .
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- Author Donna Tartt
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It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
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