Jenny Downham Quotes

… living death …

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

Every single house has had death visit.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

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

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

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

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

The only certainty is death.

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.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.