Death

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I envy the dead, and with them alone would I exchange my lot.

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"It was stupid, thinking it was him," he muttered. "I mean, I knew he was dead."
"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night."

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Those who've left us aren't absent, they're invisible, they keep their eyes full of glory fixed in ours full of tears.

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-But I wouldn't like a photo.
-And why is that?
-Because a photo ages, and it also ages my memory of you. But the name doesn't. The name remains. It will always remain incontaminated [...]
-I don't care for death.
-That's only because you don't live. You protect yourself and that's it, you and your masks. Our parents gave us life and we must earn death... And you can only do so if you don't farther it from your thoughts and conversation. Only that way it doesn't win.

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We can think about the human person - that is the only type person that we know - like a wave that gets up and wound down, or to a bubble that takes shape and then burst, on the surface of the "immortal sea". As a wave or a bubble, the human person is ephemeral.
The person, than lives and dies in a psychosomatic organism on this planet, could be a manifestation of the eternal spiritual truth.

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There is always some reason for killing a man. It's instead impossible to justify that he lives.

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Dumbledore:"You are the true master
of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying".

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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Death is the only thing I fear. I detest if for nowadays it is the only thing you can't survive. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.