Bereavment Quotes

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
"Sarah Dessen,The Truth About Forever"

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet)

“In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.” (Marianne Williamson)

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.” (Charles Dickens,Great Expectations)

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” (Charles Dickens)

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” (Charles Dickens)

"Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love." (Terri Guillemets)

"Grief is itself a medicine." (William Cowper, Charity)

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." (John Vance Cheney)

"Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers And death as beautiful as autumn leaves." (Rabindranath Tagore)

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” (Gandhi)

“So long as we live they too shall live and love for they are a part of us, as we remember them” Gates of Prayer

"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." Mary C. Crowley

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." ~Robert Ingersoll