Virginia Woolf Quotes

Dead men have no victory.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

I cannot compete with the grave.

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

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.