Quotations for the bereaved

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• Tears water our growth. – Shakespeare
• There are times when there are too few words left to heal us, when what we wish for is to be carried, when all we have left is the hope that tomorrow will be a more gentle place to land than today.
• If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Churchill
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather
• You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the future. – Jan Glidewell
• Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys. – Alphonse de Lamartine
• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. – Christian Bovee
• There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. – Turkish Proverb
• Tears are the silent language of grief. – Voltaire
• Grief makes one hour ten. – Shakespeare
• Bereavement unravels like a piece of cloth, the fabric of your life over time you will be able to reweave your piece of cloth, but the cloth will have a new pattern. – Unknown
• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  – Irish Headstone
• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.  – Shakespeare
• Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists – Antonio Porchia
• Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect.  The wisest know nothing  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Time is a physician that heals every grief.  – Diphilus