“Nobody cries because of a person's death; death for them is a change of clothes, nothing else.”
“What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?”
“Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.”
“Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
“A few women had cried, remembering the way Henry smiled or how he would join them in singing or thinking that the death ofanyone, good or bad, master or not, cut down one more tree in the life forest that shielded them from their own death; but most said or did nothing.”
“[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.”