“There is peace even in the storm” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

 “It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature."

He smiled at the plant.

"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie