David Baldacci Quotes

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

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

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I probably am a dead man already.

Sir, then they’re just going to have to die.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

I feel like Dr. Death.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Life and hope must cease together.

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

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.