“Death never comes at thetime, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

“Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.”

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) Russian writer

“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus

“But if you're a man who eats the crops of the earth,
a mortal born for death—here, come closer,
the sooner you will meet your day to die!”

Homér Iliad

“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.

Virgil Georgics

“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

“I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.”

Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan

“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“Two thieves also enjoyed the ride with Jesus. Maybe he's coming back to fulfil the promise that he made that day on the cross. Coming for the thief, rather like a thief himself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author