Cordelia! Stay a little. Ha! What isn't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

— William Shakespeare

Death and parting are the same.

— Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

— Oliver North

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips. Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there.

— Kamand Kojouri

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Do your do you not know You're with me more dead Than you were living Reach me some time In a dream may belt me remember how sweet Your presence can breach out your handstand call to me For soon it will be Another Annie

— Semba Jallow-Rutherford

Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.

— Elizabeth Berrien

Embrace the pain

— Jude Gibbs

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

— Henry David Thoreau