Bereavement Quotes

• When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

  

  William Boyd
  • Life
  • Age
  • Realising

• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Should
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Soul
  • Disappointment
  • Bereavement

• And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Together
  • Facts
  • Achievement

• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Father
  • Pray
  • Heavenly

• To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Lose
  • Presumption
  • Bereavement

• Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Grief
  • Used
  • Burden

• For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • World
  • Long
  • She

• A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

  

  Allan Gregg
  • Goodbye
  • Bereavement