234 Quotes About Bereavement

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

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind....

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.

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

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.