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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
 - Washington Irving “When words are most empty, tears are most apt.”
 - Max Lucado “No farewell words were spoken, there was no time to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.”
 - author unknown “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”
 - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
 - Mahatma Gandhi “May the best day of her past be the worst day of her future”
 - paraphrase of Margolyn Woods and Maureen MacLellan “Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you”
 - Freddie Mercury “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true hearts will leave footprints in your heart”
 - paraphrase of Eleanor Roosevelt “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.”
 - Maya Angelou “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
 - Emily Dickinson “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.”
 - Hebrew Proverb “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
 - Cesare Pavese “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
 - Helen Keller “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
 - Buddha “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
 - Thornton Wilder “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.”
 - Seneca “I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best.”
 - Bob Dylan “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
 - Anne Roiphe “People may not remember exactly what she did, or what she said ... but they will remember how she made them feel”
 - paraphrase of Margolyn Woods and Maureen MacLellan “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
 - Theodore Geisel “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
 - Mitch Albom “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.”
 - Dorothy Ferguson “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
 - Rumi “To live in hearts, we leave behind is not to die.”
 - Thomas Campbell “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”
 - Jiddu Krishnamurti “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
 - Aeschylus “The remembrance of the good done those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.”
 - Demoustier “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
 - Haruki Murakami “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
 - Rabindranath Tagore “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
 - George Eliot “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.”
 - author unknown “It’s hard to forget someone who gave us so much to remember.”
 - author unknown “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.”
 - author unknown “Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you, until we meet again.”
 - author unknown “The song is ended but the melody remains.”
 - author unknown “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
 - A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)