The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Buddha

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Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful 'I miss you.'

Richelle E. Goodrich

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.

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