Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

Birth was the death of him.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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!

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

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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

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.

The goal of all life is death.

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

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.