But I was very very lucky and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise he is always ready to go.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross unkind word from my father.