As a kid all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

And yet I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

For those who seek to understand it death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins not in my dying.

True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle with the herd of common men.