My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey Newton

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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

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The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The death of a beloved is an amputation. – C.S. Eliot

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. ― W. C. Fields

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. ― Yann Martel

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ― Marcus Aurelius

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