Don Marquis Quotes

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Death is an absolute marvel.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

You cannot schedule death.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.