“Dying is a universe of its own. ”

“Universe is the Sun watching its own self.”

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

“That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".”

“Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe."The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.”

“When people die they retain their individual identity on the other side. When pets die, they retain their identities for a time but eventually are absorbed into the universal spirit to replenish its store of love.”