Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.