I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.
There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.
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