Quotes About Loss And Bereavement

#1. I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Olivia Newton-John

#2. 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

#3. Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

Brent Green

#4. Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#5. Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.

Brent Green

#6. 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

#7. Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terror
and brief moments of peace.
You can only go as fast
as the ride will take you.
Just remember:
It will end and you will be okay.

Kate McGahan

#8. Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children.

Elizabeth Berrien

#9. 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

#10. The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.

Brent Green

#16. Now I'm back, it's a bit strange. When I left I was younger than Ben, now I'm older than he'll ever be.

Susan Leona Fisher

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become Master of the Self. A gradual process, this is often tied to loss and to love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#20. This is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

Hilary Mantel

#21. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

#22. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.

Kristen Henderson

#23. Death and parting are the same.

Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

#24. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.

Anna White

#25. How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

J.K. Rowling

#26. Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Oliver North

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

Elizabeth Berrien

#28. Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.

Caitlin Kittredge

#29. Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him.

Michael Chabon

#30. 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

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

Elizabeth Berrien

#32. Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

Carrie Jones

#33. 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

#34. Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Mason Cooley

#35. Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.

Meg Donohue

#36. We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it.

Nathalie Himmelrich

#37. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)

Neena Verma