Inescapable End Quotes

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

Dead men have no victory.

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.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.