The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

And now six years have already gone by. I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired."

Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say-not entirely. But I know that he did go back to his planet, because I did not find his body at daybreak. It was not such a heavy body. and at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.