The priority is making sure the next of kin are aware and giving support to the bereaved. (Quote by - Karen Williams)

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! / Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. (Quote by - Bible)

Kay was an extraordinary person. As a bereaved widow, she surprised everyone with her strength to take over the Washington Post to make it one of the world's great newspapers. She is greatly admired, of course, everywhere in the very competitive world of politics and publishing. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite)

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William Shakespeare, a bereaved father, said, Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart, and bids it break. .. Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)

recoiling from the agony of a bereaved mother . (Quote by - Cindy Sheehan)

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. (Quote by - Jean De La BruyFre)

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

callous and irresponsible attempt to misguide voters and exploit the trauma of those who survived or were bereaved by the massacre. (Quote by - Paddy Ashdown)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)

Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. (Quote by - M. F. K. Fisher)

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. (Quote by - Amelia Burr)

As we get older, bereavement, illness, physical impairments, as well as living far away from family members, could cause any one of us to be isolated - which can lead to loneliness and ill health in older people. (Quote by - Gordon Lishman)

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. (Quote by - Bible)

For some moments in life there are no words. (Quote by - David Seltzer)

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. (Quote by - Kenji Miyazawa)

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. (Quote by - Bible)

Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs -- between -- This entry continued ... (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)