What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory of them. With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution of happiness, strength, and understanding to my being remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.