David Gemmell Quotes

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

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.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

The only certainty is death.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

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)

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

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

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

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

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

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.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I'm dying always.

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

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

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.