“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”
“People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.”
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.”
“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”
“Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.”
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”