Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.