Jonathan Swift Quotes

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

The sole equality on earth is death.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

There is a God, and no one is going to live longer than he was given to live.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

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

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.