Death Universality Quotes

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

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.

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.