Grief Inspirational Bereavement Quotes

#1. One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

Lemony Snicket

#2. The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don't have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how we spend our time.

Elizabeth Berrien

#3. Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.

Elizabeth Berrien

#4. God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

Mike Bickle

#5. I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have "woken me up" to reality in the same way.

Elizabeth Berrien

#6. It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to let go of your relationship with your loved one as you once knew it. And remember, letting go is not the same thing as forgetting!

Elizabeth Berrien

#7. I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect myself from the uncertainties of the world.

Elizabeth Berrien

#8. Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

Ann Benjamin

#9. I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Elizabeth Berrien

#10. It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.

Elizabeth Berrien

#11. I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son's floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever.

Shelley Ramsey

#12. Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Jim Woodring

#13. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

Elizabeth Berrien

#14. When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss.

Christina Rasmussen

#15. This too shall pass.

Anonymous

#16. You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart, and your own internal wisdom that will lead you in the direction you need to go.

Elizabeth Berrien

#17. And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

Michael Chertoff

#18. Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.

Elizabeth Berrien

#19. There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it.

Elizabeth Berrien

#20. We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.

Elizabeth Berrien

#21. Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. My memories were carefully chronicled in fragrant oils, mixed in cobalt bottles, labeled and shelved.

Jennifer Rush

#24. Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#25. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

#26. {T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

Alice Walker

#27. Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

Elizabeth Berrien