
“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2
“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Quoted in 2008 article. [about the death of soldiers, January 2008]
“A person is a process, one that leads to death…”
“An Unread Book”, p. 40
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 4
Said to Molotov in 1943, as quoted in Felix Chuev's 140 Conversations with Molotov Moscow, 1991.
Contemporary witnesses
“Death was soon and growing sooner.”
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 20, “The Shield of Lady Wisdom” Section 6 (p. 280)
“See, they say, how they love one another, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to death.”
Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligant; ipsi enim invicem oderunt: et ut pro alterutro mori sint parati; ipsi enim ad occidendum alterutrum paratiores erunt.
Source: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 39, describing how Christianity is mocked by its enemies.