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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep sorrows in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Perhaps even these things will be a joy to recall one day.

— Virgil

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

— William Wordsworth

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

— Khalil Gibran

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.

— Charles Dickens

Grief can be the garden of compassion.

— Rumi

Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

— Dante Alighieri

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be — but love is never lost.

Into each life some rain must fall.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes.

— Emily Dickinson

This too shall pass.

— Persian Proverb

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain.

— Dante Alighieri

Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

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