Home /
Quotes /
Bereavement Quotes

Bereavement Quotes

Grief, loss, and honest support

These bereavement quotes describe how loss at a young Age can suddenly reveal that life is unjust and unpredictable.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Experience
|
Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by William Boyd

Game
|
Nov 07, 2020

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

Quotes by Peter Capaldi

Losing
|
Nov 07, 2020

The bereaved are often treated badly. There is no statutory paid bereavement leave, with the emotionally stunned often compelled to work within days of losing a loved one.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Experience
|
Nov 07, 2020

Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

Quotes by Karen Traviss

Nov 07, 2020

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

Quotes by David Oyelowo

Hurt
|
Nov 07, 2020

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

Quotes by Bernard Sumner

Others point to real gaps in support, noting the lack of paid bereavement leave, which leaves grieving people back at Business within days of a loss.

Famous Topics

Top 10 quotes