Tobias Smollett Quotes

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

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

No one here gets out alive.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

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

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

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

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

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

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

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.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.