Quotes on Bereavement

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

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.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.