„For I say this is death and the sole death,—When a man’s loss comes to him from his gain,Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,And lack of love from love made manifest.“

— Robert Browning

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„Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.“
— Meister Eckhart
„The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.--from WHEN DEATH COMES“
— Mary Oliver
„Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.“
— Margaret Atwood
„If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life“
— Pablo Neruda
„The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.“
— Chinua Achebe