"We went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged a…"

— Edward R. Murrow

"I am disappointed by that stroke of death that has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure."

— David Garrick

"Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

— Diogenes Laërtius

"Punkrock is dead, and I fucking killed it!"

— Billie Joe Armstrong

"…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles."

— Anthony Burgess