D. H. Lawrence Quotes

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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)

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.

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

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

No one gets out of here alive.

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.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

All who are born are always dying.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

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

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

The only certainty is death.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

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

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

It is the lot of man but once to die.