Here is a list of the top 10 Bereavement Quotes we have found:
- 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. – Bruyere, Jean De La
- 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. – Burchill, Julie
- 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. – Carlyle, Jane Welsh
- 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. – Dowell, Coleman
- 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. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- 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 this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. – Irving, Washington
- Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth
- 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. – Lewis, C. S.
- 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 — if we could know! - Julia Harris
- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. – Murdoch, Iris
There are many more great quotes, we think it really helps in times of loss to look to the words of others that have been through or are going through the same things. We hope that you all appreciate these words and that you share them with your friends.
