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"Loss creates a vacuum into which something greater always flows."
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."
-- Washington Irving

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
-- Samuel Johnson

"In terms of loss, every kind of grief is different one from the other. In terms of stress factors in life, sociologists and psychologist say the loss of a spouse and the loss of a child are almost equally stressful. Because when a child dies prematurely, it's out of order. When the spouse dies everything is interconnected ... Grief is not something we learn. There is no class that will teach us how to grieve properly. We grieve because we are humans living in an imperfect world. Imperfect things happen....."
-- Katlyn Stewart, Song of Cy: Understanding Grief - to be published October, 2005