234 Quotes About Bereavement
- Author Chelsea Tolman
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It’s not that easy. Loss needs to be experienced. It should be felt in all it’s beautiful and horrible ways. When your heart is shredded like fraying fabric and dangling in pieces, the scotch tape method isn’t going to work long term. Careful stitching and honest grieving is necessary to put things back into place. Maybe not perfectly, but at least in a way so you can breathe again.
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- Author Lemony Snicket
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If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.
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- Author Oliver North
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Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
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- Author Robert A Berezin
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Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.
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- Author Jerry Lewis
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When I awoke on Wednesday afternoon, I understood how an amputee must feel.
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- Author Donna Tartt
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I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes - and long after I was sure of it I made myself stand in their midst, folded deep inside myself like a sick pigeon with its eyes closed.
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- Author Stacey Urrutia
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Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle.
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- Author Helen Macdonald
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What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.
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- Author Kathy Shuker
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Letting go’ sounded like such an easy thing to do...but actually involved a lot of pain.
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