Death : (105)

" I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. " - Terry Pratchett

" They can’t give a Nobel to someone who’s dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. " - Doris Lessing

" Epitaph for a dead waiter – God finally caught his eye. " - George S. Kaufman

" The goal of all life is death. " - Sigmund Freud

" Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. " - Thomas Browne

" I have been here before as a spirit – this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off. " - Glenn Hoddle

" My view is that life is too short. I’m not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms – just you and her, and it’s one o’clock in the morning, and you’re waiting for her to exhale – you just think, life’s too bloody short to argue about the little things. " - Saffron Aldridge

" As for AIDS, it’s a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it’s a quarter; after that it’s a childhood disease. " - Larry Niven

" As they say in the bible, that you’re supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they’re born, because it’s one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying. " - Gregg Allman

" Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of ‘Dad’s Army.’ My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who’s next? Will it be someone I can’t stand? " - Matt Roper