Once a disease has entered the body all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her alone shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

No one else can take risks for us or face our losses on our behalf or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows and when death comes we meet it alone.

No one ever said on their deathbed 'Gee I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

A face to lose youth for to occupy age With the dream of meet death with.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Old age is always wakeful as if the longer linked with life the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.