I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.