Bob Hope Quotes

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death is a very important part of life.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

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.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

If I die soon, don't ever say I died too young.