Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Joan Didion

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death. Listen to them.

We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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