Death Knocks Quotes

#1. Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

Grace Ogot

#3. Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Horace

#4. Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Horace

#5. A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

Marisha Pessl

#6. I would never betray a friend. So who the hell cares if somebody betrayed you once, huh?!! I'm not like that!

Bossun Sket Dance

#7. Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

Sam Snead

#8. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#9. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

#10. Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.

Andris Piebalgs

#11. I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

Dolly Parton

#12. Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

Romola Garai

#14. We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#15. When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

John Masefield

#16. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

#17. It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

Anthony Liccione

#18. Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

#19. A mist rises from a nearby mound. It could be me, that mist, or simply the caretaker's mower-dust. If the breeze blows just right, I'll ghost your solid, entwine your hair. Promise me you won't shampoo, but carry me along, tiny dust-particles of me.

Chila Woychik

#20. I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Dick Cavett

#21. The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

Ian Brown

#22. Some jobs offer increments. This one offered ... well, quite the reverse

Terry Pratchett

#23. Death is sad, but to those closest to the deceased it is greater than that, it is a catastrophe, an off-the-Richter-scale, ground-shaking earthquake, a gale force fuck hurricane, a three-story-high rolling tsunami that knocks you flat, sweeps you away and strips you bare.

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