“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.”

“If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.”

“Why wait any longer for the one you loveWhen he’s standing in front of you”

“But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....”

“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”

“It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.”