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Quotes About Finality

Death keeps no calendar.
~ George Herbert
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
~ Umberto Eco
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
~ Agnes Smedley
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
~ Emily Dickinson
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
~ Plato
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
~ Horace
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
~ Stanislav Grof
Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
~ William Shakespeare
Death is something we really understand extremely well.
~ Bill Gates
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
~ William Wordsworth
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want nothing but death.
~ Jane Austen
The only certainty is death.
~ Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
Isn't death the boundary we need?
~ Don DeLillo
death is always sudden however long one waits.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
All true stories end in death.
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
~ Ludwig Buchner
Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
~ Henri
Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!
~ Dan Brown
And last of all comes death.
~ Anacreon
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Death is very, very terminal.
~ David Lange
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
~ John Irving