You may not think the world needed you, but it did. For you were unique: like no one that has ever been before or will come after. No one can speak with your voice; say your piece; smile your smile; or shine your light. No one can take your place for it was yours alone to fill. Because you are not here to shine your light, who knows how many travelers will lose their way as they try to pass by your empty place in the darkness. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein or Lawrence and Hazel Maher
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies ~ William Penn
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with it's colour. ~ W.S. Merwin (1973)
Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you..... I loved you so -- 'twas Heaven here with you." ~ Ilsa Paschal Richardson
This we owe our beloved dead, whether young or old; to wipe from our memories all that was less than their best, and to carry them in our hearts at their wisest, most compassionate, most creative moments. Is that not what all of us hope from those who survive us? ~ Elizabeth Watson
"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever." ~ Winnie the Pooh
"Imagine the beauty of it – that moment when the soul of a loved one returns to the stars, the voices each whispering, I remember you." ~ author unknown
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~ William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~ Gilda Radner
... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. ~ Gretchen Kemp~
I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry. ~ Cat Stevens