Daphne du Maurier Quotes

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

When it's your time, it is your time.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Life and death are matters of the God. I can be killed even at home.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

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.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

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.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.