Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.
Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
