Alexander Smith Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Time and death sleep side by side.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Birth was the death of him.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

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

The goal of all life is death.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.