Robert Morley Quotes

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

The sole equality on earth is death.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

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.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

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

Some people live. Some people die.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Death renders all equal.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.