Reunion after separation is even better than one's wedding night.
-- Chinese proverb

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, ch. 26, sct. 310 (1851), trans. by E.F.J. Payne.

But in the same instant they sensed their falling back was more like preparing for a running start...
-- - Patrick Suskind, 'Perfume'

The war of swords and spears
Melted by dewy tears
Exhales on high.
-- William Blake, 'Morning'

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
-- --Homer, The Odyssey

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such is the holy gift of the Muses to men.
-- Hesiod

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