John Masefield Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

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

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

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

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

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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 live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

The only certainty life contains is death.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

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

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

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

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.