Bereavement Quotes
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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: / So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. (Quote by - Bible)
Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. (Quote by - Rossiter Worthington Raymond)
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Widows are divided into two classes -- the bereaved and relieved. (Quote by - Victor Robinson)
These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offered relief and escape. The old paradigm would have seen this absence of grief as emotional inhibition or a form of denial, but in our view, these are people for whom bereavement serves as the end of a chronic source of stress. (Quote by - Deborah Carr)
The entire Muslim community has condemned the incident and expressed its sorrow for the bereaved families. (Quote by - Syed Ahmad Bukhari)
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable. (Quote by - Agate Nesaule)
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. (Quote by - Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. (Quote by - William Penn)
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. (Quote by - Bible)
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: / I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. (Quote by - Bible)
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. (Quote by - Henri Nouwen)
I'm having an ongoing challenge to see my work outside myself. Till recently, I couldn't address this without getting emotional, so this is a breakthrough. Not dancing is a bereavement - losing the thing that's so much part of your identity. (Quote by - Michael Clark)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations: / Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD. (Quote by - Bible)
Despite costing in excess of € 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist. (Quote by - Michael Craig)
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well. (Quote by - Adabella Radici)
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. (Quote by - Socrates)
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. (Quote by - Dean Inge)
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. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A human life is a story told by God. (Quote by - Hans Christian Andersen)
CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. (Quote by - John Taylor)
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished; And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. (Quote by - Rita Schiano)
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways. (Quote by - Bible)
Watson quoted himself to the writers, telling them what he writes in notes of bereavement to others. May the memories of the one who has passed on fill the void that they left, .. There's another poem, by St. Augustine, that says, 'Don't cry for me but remember the most important things of my life and what I represented in my life and make that your memory of me, not my death.' I think that's important. We have grief. I'm sure I'll cry. I'll cry a lot before it's over. (Quote by - Tom Watson)
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. (Quote by - Dean Inge)
The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict. (Quote by - Reg Keys)
Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, particularly her two sons, and with all the families bereaved in this quite appalling tragedy. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. (Quote by - Elisabeth KnBler-Ross )
When he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heav'n so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. (Quote by - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. (Quote by - John Milton)
My impression is that these (business owners) are people who care very much about the people who work for them. So we have put together information for companies dealing with common workplace issues, such as how to identify depression and how to resolve issues dealing with bereavement and grief in the workplace. (Quote by - Paul Parks)
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
The secretary-general expresses his deepest condolences to the government of Iraq and to the families of the bereaved. (Quote by - Marie Okabe)
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing.. not healing, not curing.. that is a friend who cares. (Quote by - Henri Nouwen)
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. (Quote by - Coleman Dowell)
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (Quote by - Talmud)
Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, .. And despite the fact that many had no formal training, the degree of caring and thoughtfulness these volunteers have is amazing. And most of all, their hearts are broken for the community, for what was versus what is. (Quote by - Lisa Aronson)
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement. (Quote by - Alan Gregg)
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. (Quote by - Colette)
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. (Quote by - Jane Welsh Carlyle)
He kept at true good humour's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)
We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition of striving to bring together people and communities where we do business. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and many others impacted by this natural disaster; our prayers and thoughts are with all the families who have lost loved ones. (Quote by - Howard Schultz)
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. (Quote by - Bible)
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. (Quote by - Julie Burchill)
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: / And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: / Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: / And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. (Quote by - Bible)
We refrained from announcing this detail previously out of consideration for the man's bereaved family. (Quote by - Yoshinori Katori)
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
The priority is making sure the next of kin are aware and giving support to the bereaved. (Quote by - Karen Williams)
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! / Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. (Quote by - Bible)
Kay was an extraordinary person. As a bereaved widow, she surprised everyone with her strength to take over the Washington Post to make it one of the world's great newspapers. She is greatly admired, of course, everywhere in the very competitive world of politics and publishing. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite)
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William Shakespeare, a bereaved father, said, Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart, and bids it break. .. Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
recoiling from the agony of a bereaved mother …. (Quote by - Cindy Sheehan)
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. (Quote by - Jean De La BruyFre)
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
callous and irresponsible attempt to misguide voters and exploit the trauma of those who survived or were bereaved by the massacre. (Quote by - Paddy Ashdown)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. (Quote by - M. F. K. Fisher)
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. (Quote by - Amelia Burr)
As we get older, bereavement, illness, physical impairments, as well as living far away from family members, could cause any one of us to be isolated - which can lead to loneliness and ill health in older people. (Quote by - Gordon Lishman)
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. (Quote by - Bible)
For some moments in life there are no words. (Quote by - David Seltzer)
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. (Quote by - Kenji Miyazawa)
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. (Quote by - Bible)
Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs -- between -- This entry continued ... (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
My life closed twice before its close;It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
The secretary-general expresses his condolences to the bereaved families and the respective governments. (Quote by - Stephane Dujarric)
Year after year their hearts and homes have opened to those bereaved who came here in sad pilgrimage. Out of such humanity we see the power love has to transcend even the most appalling evil. (Quote by - Mary McAleese)
here is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Words pay no debts, give her deeds; but she'll bereave you of the deeds too if she call. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves lives a memory no one can steal. (Quote by - Headstone in Irish Cemetary)
The stampede has added to grief of flood-ravaged victims. We deeply mourn the loss of lives and join bereaved families in their hour of sorrow. (Quote by - Somnath Chatterjee)
