“Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.”

“If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

“Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!”

“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.”

“It's interesting how people use that expression, life and death. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death. Life...has no opposite.”