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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“Dreams are more powerful than facts.”

“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.”

“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

“The only cure for grief is action.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.”

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.”

“I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”