“For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.”Edmund Cooper book Seed of LightSeed of Light (1959)
“There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.”Edmund Cooper book TransitTransit (1964)
“All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.”Edmund Cooper book Seed of LightSeed of Light (1959)
“Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death.”Edmund Cooper Prisonner of Fire (1974)
“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”Edmund Cooper book Five to TwelveFive to Twelve (1968)