David Hare Quotes

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

All true stories end in death.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

Death persecutes before it executes.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.