„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

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„Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.“
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
„maybe deathisn't darkness, after all,but so much lightwrapping itself around us“
— Mary Oliver
„Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.“
— Heraclitus