Laura Linney Quotes

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

With death comes honesty.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

Death always seems to be around me.

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.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

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!

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?