„On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart:There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.“

— Kabir

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„Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves…. I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And what if plane trees bore harps which gave forth rhythmical sounds? Clearly you would think in the same way that the art of music was possessed by plane trees. Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?“
— Zeno of Citium
„Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.“
— Cassandra Clare