James Russell Lowell Quotes

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I envy the dead.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Birth was the death of him.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.