“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.”

“We live, we love, we let it go.”

“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”

“Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.”

“Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.”

“Science gives us the ability to pull back the skin of lifeand reveal the truth of things. It allows us to understandthe mysteries of mountain-making and falling stars.But knowledge isn’t meant to be held as a weapon in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.Evil lodges too easily in men’s hearts.What will happen if they assume the power to create life?”

“The path i walk lights up in flames”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“There is life and death in all forest, the life will bring you beauty and the dead will bring you new life! Roland R Kemler”

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“Follow your heart, Ithilnin,” Albirich repeated. “Time is precious. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.”