bereavement therapy Quotes

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.