After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still... →
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a... →
Paulo Coelho
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... →
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are... →
J. M. Coetzee
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
Paula Cole
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge