"For all these years, I have done my utmost, witnessing patient after patient, elder after elder, pass away before my eyes."
"I am filled with sorrow, yet I have never felt it to be unjust. Just as my master once said, life and death are governed by the heavens; birth, aging, illness, and death—these are all divine providence, all fate."
"I once thought that after seeing so much death, I would no longer feel sadness."
Chapter 82