"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast....."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"
- Shannon L. Alder
"The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye."
- Sanober Khan
"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?"
"That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying."
- Saim .A. Cheeda
"When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which,..."
- Jennifer Egan
"How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana."
- C.S. Lewis
"The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own."
- Kate Mosse
"One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them."
- Elizabeth Goudge