Death (=38) and Decay (=38)

D+E+A+T+H = 38 = D+E+C+A+Y

“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.” - Hu Shih
 
"There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise....”
- Charles Mackay
 
"Is the small town a place, truly, of the world, or is it no more than something out of a boy's dreaming? Out of his love of all things not of death made? All things somewhere beyond the dust, rust, and decay, beyond the top, beyond all sides, beyond bottom: outside, around, over, under, within?” - William Saroyan