“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”

“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”

“We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”