Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I...

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever...

I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a...

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind though slain by millions, millions left behind?

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that...

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Those who live, live off the dead.

There has been too much silliness and cliché when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for...

I am feeling older every day.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.