Be Wise

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  ~From a headstone in Ireland


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.  ~Robert Ingersoll


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.  ~Kahlil Gibran


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A human life is a story told by God.  ~Hans Christian Andersen


To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"


We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa


While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.  ~John Taylor


He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~Rossiter Worthington Raymond


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


He kept at true good humour's mark
The social flow of pleasure's tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Tears are God’s gift to us.  Our holy water.  They heal us as they flow.  ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company


When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.  ~Author Unknown


If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
~Author Unknown


It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead:  Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?  ~Benjamin Franklin, 22 February 1756


With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~Thomas Moore


For some moments in life there are no words.  ~David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
~John Henry Newman


The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994