Finality of Life Quotes

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.

And death makes equal the high and low.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

We all die, just a question of when.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Death is the great leveller.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.