Sigrid Undset Quotes

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

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!

Birth was the death of him.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

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

The goal of all life is death.

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

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.

All things are only transitory.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

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

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.