When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
