On disengaging from a character after filming: "There`s a terrible sadness. The last day of shooting is surreal. Your mind, your body, your spirit are not in any way prepared to accept that this experience is coming to an end. In the months that follow the finish of a film, you feel profound emptiness. You`ve devoted so much of your time to unleashing, in an unconscious way, some sort of spiritual turmoil, and even if it`s uncomfortable, no part of you wishes to leave that character behind. The sense of bereavement is such that it can take years before you can put it to rest.
- Daniel Day-LewisDespite costing in excess of € 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist.
- Michael CraigBereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
- Alan StarkBereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
- Alan Stark