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Inevitability of death17 quotes
Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths. — Herman Melville · 1851We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000The paths of glory lead but to the grave. — Thomas Gray · 1751We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838All 17 quotes →Death10 quotes
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying. — D.H. Lawrence · 1932I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. — Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1928All 10 quotes →The human condition3 quotes
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881There's a saying, every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1959Effects of time1 quote
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine
To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. — Edward Young · 1742Facing death1 quote
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Fear of death1 quote
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Nature of death1 quote
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. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860Passage of time1 quote
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838The Grim Reaper1 quote
And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last. — Sir Walter Scott · 1808The only constant is change1 quote
Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome · 396