Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

The only certainty is death.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

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)

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

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

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

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

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

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.