Death : (78)

" People close to me were getting worried because my bowel was in a bad way. There was a concern it could perforate at any time, almost explode inside me. I don’t like talking about death but I would have been in trouble if something like that had happened. " - Darren Fletcher

" In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. " - Terry Pratchett

" The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. " - Christian Nestell Bovee

" It is the lot of man but once to die. " - Francis Quarles

" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. " - Robert Benchley

" When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can’t compute or deal with. " - Andrew Buchan

" I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse. " - Richard Lamm

" My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. " - Shirley Manson

" Hey, I’ve done a lot of other things, but I’m also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, ‘The man responsible for ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.’ " - Peter Frampton

" They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I’ve done it, and there’s consequences, but it can be done. Death you’re not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. " - Steve Earle