The laughter of angels can heal a broken heart.

-- anonymous

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. 

-- Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

It is important that people know what you stand for.  It is equally important that they know what you will not stand for.

-- Mary Waldorp

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose. 

-- Ecclesiastes 1:4,5

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. 

-- E. Roosevelt

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. 

-- J. W. Carlyle

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy…which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

-- Cervantes

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

-- Broch

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. 

-- Thoreau