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Bereavement
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate
response to death. When a life has
been lived completely honestly, completely
successfully,or just completely,
the correct response to death's perfect
punctuation mark is a smile.
?Julie Burchill
DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE
NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES
LIVES A MEMORY
NO ONE CAN STEAL
?Headstone in Irish Cemetary
Never does one feel oneself
so utterly helpless as in trying
to speak comfort for great bereavement.
I will not try it. Time is the only
comforter for the loss of a mother.
?Jane Welsh Carlyle
Be of good cheer about death
and know this as a truth-- that
no evil can happen to a good man,
either in life or after death.
?Socrates
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
That all of thee we loved and cherished
Has with thy summer roses perished;
And left, as its young beauty fled,
An ashen memory in its stead.
?John Greenleaf Whittier
Guilt is perhaps the most
painful companion of death.
?Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead
also feel the pains of separation (and this
may be one of their purgatorial sufferings),
then for both lovers, and for all pairs
of lovers without exception, bereavement is
a universal and integral
part of our experience of love.
?C. S. Lewis
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
?Harriet Beecher Stowe
If we could know which of us,
darling, would be the first to go, who
would be first to breast the swelling
tide and step alone upon the
other side -- if we could know!
?Julia Harris May
