Death : (78)

" Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. " - Heinrich Heine

" The last time time I saw the guys was at the end of the ‘Rock Or Bust’ tour. Yeah, everybody was fine. Malcolm hadn’t passed yet, and, of course, I’m sure it hit Angus very, very hard – as with all of us, actually. " - Chris Slade

" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. " - Robert A. Heinlein

" Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering. " - Theodore Roosevelt

" There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens. " - Ann Hood

" People are strange. We’re all morticians. Hey, what’s on TV? " - Ric Ocasek

" I like death. I’m a big fan of it. " - Guy Ritchie

" My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7. " - Louis MacNeice

" A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I’ve seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I’ve never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That’s amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that’s being taken apart. " - Lewis Thomas

" I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative. " - Margot Kidder