Quotes About Destiny

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

The only certainty is death.

Death's but one more to-morrow.

All true stories end in death.

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

The lucky ones are just born dead.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."