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.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

All diseases run into one, old age.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I just don’t have time to get old!

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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.

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.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

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

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

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