My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Inactivity is death.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.