Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can because when you feel nothing it's just death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing and some of us unfortunately don't make it there and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

If you live a life of make-believe your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me sailing the open ocean is a real challenge because it's life or death.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions both good and bad become transparent no longer limited by outward appearences.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Death does not concern us because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come we no longer exist.