The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.

My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off.