“Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.”

“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”

“He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.”

“But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ”

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

“The repetition of the days have taught me to fear nothing in life except the fear of my own ignorance.”

“Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.”

“Cold Mountain Son
Forever not change
I live alone
Beyond life death”

“Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.”