Lucretius Quotes

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

There is no more final end than death.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

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

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

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

No one gets out of here alive.

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.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

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.

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

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