Blaise Pascal Quotes

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

No one gets out of here alive.

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

The only certainty is death.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

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.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

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

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.