Authority Quote by Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He…

— Robert Browning

“Death abides by no one's rules...it takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took the pieces…

— Cassandra Giovanni

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with…

— Ambrose Bierce

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

— Seneca the Younger

Death is no stranger to Life. It is the ruler and the master of all, and we are his subjects. In time you will…

— Tahj Wilson

“Death means nature’s take over. One has to leave behind all his earnings (wealth) and take with him all the problems (he has created…

— Dada Bhagwan

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

— Seneca the Younger

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

— E. M. Forster

“Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’ ‘Deserves it! I daresay he does.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

— Terry Pratchett