„maybe deathisn’t darkness, after all,but so much lightwrapping itself around us“

— Mary Oliver

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„Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.“
— Meister Eckhart
„Death isn't funny.""Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.“
— Walt Whitman
„There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.“
— Charles Bukowski
„There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes.“
— David Lynch
„The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole---A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.“
— Sylvia Plath