John Grisham Quotes

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I cannot compete with the grave.

Dead men have no victory.

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?

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.

That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

Death is very, very terminal.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

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

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

At the end of the day it's the end of the day.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.