“While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.”
“The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.”
“Lead us from the unreal to the real. Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality".”
“She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.”
“... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.”
“Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict))”