Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I cannot compete with the grave.

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Death is an absolute marvel.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Birth was the death of him.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The goal of all life is death.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Dead men have no victory.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.