C. S. Lewis Bereavement Quotations

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

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.