Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

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

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.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

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.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

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.

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Death is out there for all of us.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.