It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

It is natural to die as to be born.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.