I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s…

“Memory is most fickle among the guilty. Fine, no one steps forward, no one lives!”

— H.S. Crow

“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth…

— Brian M. Holmes

“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

“I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and…

— Elizabeth Berrien

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are…

— Anonymous

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the…

— Tom Dunne

“her skilled use of her body, especially her eyes and hands, when communicating with people enabled millions sense she was a conduit between royalty,…

— Tony Walter

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of…

— James Martineau

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as…

— Caitlin Kittredge

“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with…

— Anna White

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

— Anonymous

“When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become…

— Susan Barbara Apollon