All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

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'Tis the night — the night of the graves delight and the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without the wild winds shout, but no, it is they — it is they.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Death commences too early - almost before you're half-acquainted with life - you meet the other.

Tennessee Williams

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

Elana K. Arnold

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