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.

It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.

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

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two some century or two but it is sure as life it is sure as death.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free makes no sense.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

If my survival caused another to perish then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.