Tana French Quotes

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

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.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Death renders all equal.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.