James Baldwin Quotes

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

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

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.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

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

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

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

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

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.

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.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Destructive Death seizes young and old alike.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

I feel like Dr. Death.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

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

He that is once borne, once must dy.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.