Walter Scott Quotes

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

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

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

The only certainty is death.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Destructive Death seizes young and old alike.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.