“Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.”

“Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.”

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”

“Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.”

“Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.”

“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”