Quotes About Bereaved

#1. A new pet given to a bereaved individual has saved more people from needing heart operations than any physician.

Jane Roberts

#2. Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

Victor Robinson

#3. You're a terrible man for the blankets, said Kerrigan.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I love my bed, said Byrne. She was my first friend ... She will house me in my last hour and faithfully hold my cold body when I am dead. She will look bereaved when I am gone.

Flann O'Brien

#4. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

William Blake

#5. For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

Jeanie Jenny Cameron

#7. 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.

Meghan O'Rourke

#8. Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

Veronica Roth

#9. Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

Lionel Shriver

#10. For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human.

Clive Barker

#11. The bereaved must be urged to "sit in a sunny room," preferably one with an open fire.

Joan Didion

#12. For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

Earl A Grollman

#13. Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

Helen Macdonald

#14. That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

Brenna Yovanoff

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

Nick Alexander

#16. 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.

Mallory Ortberg

#17. The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.

Joshilyn Jackson

#18. The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Agatha Christie

#19. Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Peter Ustinov

#20. The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

Philippe Aries

#21. The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#22. I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

Jandy Nelson

#23. Part of dealing with the sense of being cut off - for both the one dying and the one bereaved - is acknowledging that though a vital part of life has changed dramatically, all relationships (with friends, even with you, perhaps) have not.

Sandra L. Bertman

#24. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past.

Julian May

#26. Some widowers are bereaved
others, relieved.

Helen Rowland

#27. The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

#28. I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

#29. Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

M.F.K. Fisher

#30. In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Joan Didion

#31. Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

P.G. Wodehouse

#32. The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

Mark Twain

#33. To all the fallen: may they be young forever in heaven. To all the wounded: may they have strength and heal. To all the bereaved: may they feel joy again. And please God," he added quietly, "may there one day be an end to war.

Jo Beverley

#34. Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

John Flavel

#35. Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

Sara Gruen

#36. The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.

Diane Setterfield

#37. Contemporary American fiction has become cheap counseling to the bereaved bourgeois.

Anis Shivani

#38. Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

Winifred Gallagher

#39. Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.

Robert E. Neale

#40. At times it feels as if life itself is the greatest loser, the true bereaved party, because it is no longer subjected to that radiant curiosity of hers.

Julian Barnes

#41. We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world
the company of those who have known suffering.

Helen Keller

#42. Bereaved people who make the most effort to avoid feeling grief, research suggests, take the longest to recover from their loss.

Oliver Burkeman