Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.