Quotes About Bereavement

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth while another is gone.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone

She thinks, This cannot happen, it cannot, how will we live, what will we do, how can Judith bear it, what will I tell people, how can we continue, what should I have done, where is my husband, what will he say, how could I have saved him, why didn't I save him, why didn't I realise that it was he who was in danger? And then, the focus narrows, and she thinks: He is dead, he is dead, he is dead.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Full fathom five thy father lies

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

The game-playing aspects of detective fiction came into prominence only after the First World War, as a symptom of people's reaction to carnage and bereavement; there was a hunger for escapism, and readers relished having the chance to solve a puzzle set in a detective story.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

La temperatura de mi corazón ha caído bajo cero. Estás muerta.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Death is death and loss is loss.

I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead.

But there is no easy way to mourn a child.

It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.

One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.

He was dead, that familiar, frightening presence who had never left my heart for a split second. I felt as though the vessel of my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

For nearly two years, Bert had been taking care of Susan Branaman, who was dying of cancer. ... When she died, Bert held a wake for her. Her body had been cremated, and her remains sat out in bowls. The bereaved guests snorted the ashes, like they snorted coke.

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ëThis place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.í

Then you will say in your heart, ëWho has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?í”