a point of view...

"I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear."
"Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out..."

-Norton I and Death, in Sandman #31: "Three Septembers and a January"

"I thought you could foretell the future?"
"I don't need to know the future. When the future's over, then it's me..."

-Orpheus and Death, in Sandman: "The Song of Orpheus"

"If you had stayed with us, we could have given you life until death..."
"Don't I get that anyway?"

-Stheno and Lyta Hall, in Sandman #61: "The Kindly Ones:5"

"Your life is your own. Your death, likewise. Always and forever your own. Farewell. We shall not meet again..."

-Dream, in "Fables and Reflections"

"Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?"
"Then what died? Who are you mourning?"
"A puh-point of view..."

-Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in "The Wake"