Tess Gerritsen Quotes

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Death renders all equal.

Death is the great leveller.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

All true stories end in death.

The sole equality on earth is death.

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

Death levels all.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

The same night awaits us all.