The Song of Orpheus

HIPPOGRIFF: Orpheus. We have heard of your loss; you have our sympathies also.

ORPHEUS: I do not need your pity, Hippogriff.

HIPPOGRIFF: It was freely given, boy. You should not scorn it.

ORPHEUS: Don’t pity me.

MORPHEUS: You should have gone to her funeral.

ORPHEUS: Why?

MORPHEUS: To say goodbye.

ORPHEUS: I have not yest said goodbye to Eurydice.

MORPHEUS: You should. You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times, the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

Orpheus, The Song of Orpheus, Chapter Two