Bereavement Quotes

Bereavement Quotes

Jean de la Bruyere

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Julie Burchill

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Coleman Dowell

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Washington Irving

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but ...

C. S. Lewis

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Julia Harris May

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side ...

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