Cornel West Quotes

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

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

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

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.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

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.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

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