Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive.