Death: Whoever does not want to drive old love completely out of his heart must bear current suffering continuously. Drive all sweet memories of love out of your heart, out of your senses, out of your spirit, and you will be above grief. Once you lose that which you cannot retrieve, you should act as if it had never been yours, and in this way your suffering will flee and disappear! If you do not do so, even more suffering will await you."
To which the complainer responds,
The complainer: Human soul cannot lie idle. It must always work either for good or for bad. Even in sleep will it not be idle. If good thoughts are taken away from it, then it would switch to bad thoughts: good out—bad in, bad out—good in. This exchange must continue until the end of the world… Should I drive out of my soul the sweet thoughts of my most beloved, then bad thoughts would come into it. I would rather keep thinking of my most beloved. If great love of the heart is transformed into great suffering of the heart, who can soon forget it?[1]
[1]. J. von Saaz, Der Ackermann aus Böhmen [The Peasant from Böhmen] von G. Jungbluth, volume 1, Heidelberg, 1969, pp. 95-98.