Inevitability Of Death

Dionne Brand Poet, Novelist

"People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death."

Richard P. Feynman Physicist

"There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble."

J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

"Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings"

Italo Calvino Writer

"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."