Tag Archives: Grief Quotes

“Life is 100 percent grappling with impermanence.”

- Mara Holt Skov on the death of her husband
Posted on May 2, 2019 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret to redemption lies in remembrance.”

- Richard Von Weizsäcker
Posted on January 8, 2019 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.”

- Henri Nouwen
Posted on September 4, 2018 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

- C.S. Lewis
Posted on April 18, 2017 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.”

- Jean Cameron
Posted on June 14, 2016 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Posted on April 17, 2012 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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