Top 55 Death Certainty Quotes
#1. It's certain death anyway, said Ridcully. That's the thing about Death, certainty.
Terry Pratchett
#2. The only certainty, whether spoken or not, is that the doctors, nurses, and technicians are fighting not only death but their own uncertainties as well. In most resuscitations, those can be narrowed down to two main questions: Are we doing the right things? and, Should we be doing anything at all?
Sherwin B. Nuland
#3. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
James Thurber
#4. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!
Frank Herbert
#5. The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
#6. I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning ... as does death.
Dean Koontz
#7. But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.
Scott Hastie
#9. I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.
Billy Graham
#10. The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
Edgar Morin
#11. All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
Johnny Rich
#13. Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.
Georg Ebers
#14. The death is a bearable certainty. If it would only hurry.
Dervis Susic
#15. That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
Jesse Ball
#16. The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Carl Sandburg
#17. Here we are, condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#18. What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#19. In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.
Emily Thorne
#20. I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content.
Ashwin Sanghi
#21. Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
Billy Graham
#22. I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.
Greg Egan
#23. Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it.
Abigail Thomas
#24. Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
#25. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof
#26. The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.
Terry Goodkind
#27. A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.
Robin LaFevers
#28. I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal ... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.
Andres Serrano
#29. Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Ruth Ann Minner
#30. I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
Shekhar Kapur
#31. But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent principles. They may do so; but they may also wish to build death camps, and may very well choose to do that instead. For
David Bentley Hart
#32. Here was world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. The patterns of life and deaths ...
Thomas Pynchon
#33. There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality ... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
Manly Hall
#34. The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain.
Rick Yancey
#36. When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'Connor
#38. Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality
Frederick Lenz
#39. T nightfall, at
the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose
out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred
the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#42. The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#43. The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Mark Twain
#44. My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty.
Eugenie De Guerin
#45. Do not think that heroes cannot be broken! We are only more difficult to break, Hermione." The old wizard's eyes had grown sterner than she had ever seen. "When you have been exhausted for many hours, when pain and death is not a passing fear but a certainty, then it is harder to be a hero.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#46. Lord Jesus, we praise you for your victory over death and your grace. In our moments of doubt and worry, remind us of the certainty of the resurrection, until we see it with our own eyes. Amen.
Northwestern Publishing House
#47. Fear accompanies only the possibility of death. Calm ushers its certainty.
Scott McEwen
#48. Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
#49. One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.
Johnny Rich
#51. Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Susan Abulhawa
#52. Loss, once it's become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It's solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.
William Kent Krueger
#53. When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past - and about the future only as far as that it is death.
Erich Fromm
#54. You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.
Jeanne Safer
#55. Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
Immanuel Wallerstein
