Alexander Smith Quotes

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

Isn't death the boundary we need?

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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 never polite, even when we expect it.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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.

Death isn't something that should necessarily be glorified, but I also don't think it's something that people need to be afraid of. It's just the way it is. There's nothing we can do about it.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Death is the only real elegance.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

Death is very, very terminal.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.