Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. Iris Murdoch
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. Jane Welsh Carlyle
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 is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. Dean Inge
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. Dean Inge