I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Sin brought death and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper without interrupting our breakfast numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

The enemy fought with savage fury and met death with all its horrors without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

As a kid all I thought about was death.

For the sake of goodness and love man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

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.

I balanced all brought all to mind the years to come seemed waste of breath a waste of breath the years behind in balance with this life this death.

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.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.