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Quotes About Time

Death comes for us all in the end.
~ J. K. Rowling
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.
~ Dario Fo
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
~ Erich Fromm
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
~ Paul Tillich
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
~ Ernest Dowson
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
~ Aldous Huxley
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
~ George Carlin
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
~ George Eliot
As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
~ Luigi Pirandello
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
~ Martial
In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.
~ Unknown
The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
~ Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.
~ Eydie Gorme
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
~ Epicurus
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
~ W. S. Merwin
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
~ Robert Bolt
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
~ Joyce Kilmer
... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief