Quotes by Bereavement There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example. Aldous Huxley bereavement agony suffering A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement. Allan Gregg bereavement dying goodbye Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. Ambrose Bierce bereavement shows evil Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. Andrew Solomon bereavement grief depression Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. Anne Fadiman bereavement serious matter Grief is a process, not a state. Anne Grant bereavement grief grieving I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you. Barbara Kingsolver bereavement eye children Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. C. S. Lewis grief-observed bereavement universal The death of a beloved is an amputation. C. S. Lewis amputation bereavement beloved 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. C. S. Lewis bereavement pain love 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. Coleman Dowell bereavement coffee house I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing. Colum McCann bereavement parent children If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it. Daniel Handler bereavement loved-ones imagine All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. Debbie Ford bereavement grief suffering To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Emily Dickinson bereavement eccentric might The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. Francine Prose mystery-of-death bereavement trying It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky bereavement grief joy Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources. George C. Lorimer bereavement disappointment god No one is exempt from grief. Gregory Maguire bereavement sadness grief It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. Gregory Maguire bereavement bitter loneliness 123»