"...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings." --Sogyal Rinpoche
"When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries." --Kabir
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." --from a headstone in Ireland
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." --Harriet Beecher Sto