When you're struggling to find the right thing to say, it may help to find inspiration in the words of others.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

--Andrew A. Rooney

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

--Albert Einstein

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

--Helen Keller

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there.

--Isla Paschal Richardson

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

--Thomas Campbell

Death is the great clarifier; it shows us what is important.

--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

--Henry David Thoreau

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

--William Penn

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

--William Wordsworth

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

--Samuel Johnson

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

--Samuel Butler

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

--Abraham Lincoln

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

--William Ross Wallace

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.

--Chuck Palahniuk