Quote by Garth Nix

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do

Summary

This quote suggests that death is an inevitable part of life, regardless of whether one is aware or accepting of it. The mention of the "Ninth Gate" implies that the truth of death's inevitability becomes evident when contemplating the vastness and mystery of the universe. It highlights the insignificance of human existence in the grand scheme of things and reminds us that death is an immutable truth that no one can escape.

Topics

Time Truth Thetimes

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compe

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing mor

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in or

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical sci

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but s

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with str

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Four

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961

Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intim

Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

Truth Rights Silence

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to mu

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan