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.

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.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.