Death
John Pickering (John Winton Pickering) died on February 28, 2011, in Houston, Texas, following complications after a stroke, aged 77.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Life without a friend is death without a witness.”
—Spanish proverb.
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Sad. Nothing more than sad. Let’s not call it a tragedy; a broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)