Death

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all – the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.  –Mark Twain (reported on his deathbed)

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion. . .  – Charlie Chaplin