Quotes / The Problem with Fighting Death

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The Boatman hisses as he topples his king with a bony knuckle. 'Enjoy it while it lasts,' he growls. 'You're all of you mine in the end.'

—Fallen London

"All things die in the end. I can be robbed but never denied. Why worry?"

— Death, The Colour of Magic

SCP-1440: Should you choose to challenge Death to a game of cards for your life, there is one thing you must never do.
Dr. ████: And what is that?
SCP-1440: Win.

— SCP Foundation

"You're scared of Death, and you can't be; you're in medicine for chrissakes. Sooner or later, you're going to realize that everything we do around here, everything, is a stall. We're just trying to keep the game going, that's all. But, ultimately, it always ends up the same way."

— Perry Cox, Scrubs

"You left. Without so much as telling me goodbye. I suppose you knew I'd catch up with you sooner or later, is that it? No escaping death and all?"

— Thanatos, Hades

As more of his body sloughed off him into crimson piles on the floor, he looked up at where Death had sat. In its place he saw an old monk, bloody but whole, smiling at him. The soldier held up a now bony hand towards him in supplication: "You said that if I won, then I'd live!"
The monk shook his head. "No, I didn't."

— The Magnus Archives, "Cheating Death"

"Everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat me. But no one's escaped me yet."

— Death, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Death: I meet around a hundred and fifty thousand humans every day. On this planet alone. Not counting cats, birds or goldfish. And you people are always dying of something. It's what you do. Sometimes you get killed by other dead people. Mostly you don't.
Lex Luthor: The dead have come back to life! Several of them!
Death: It happens. In the end, they all come back to me.

— The Black Ring

Hades: [Eurydice] being here, and for that matter you being here, is inevitable. So why fight it?
Orpheus: If it's inevitable, why don't you let us out of here? We'll be back soon enough.

—Shredder Orpheus

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