Steven Erikson Quotes

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.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

No one escapes from life alive.

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

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.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

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

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

Death takes no bribes.

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

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.