Top 100 Quotes About Inevitable Death
#1. embrace this moment and
taste my breath
to take you away from inevitable death
A.P. Sweet
#2. What pays for all this?"
"Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.
Margaret Atwood
#3. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#4. Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
Leo Tolstoy
#5. In the life of a child of the elite, there are many moments ripe for a grand celebration. There are birth and the inevitable death.In between,various stages of consciousness define the nature and scale of celebration.
K.J. Kilton
#6. Communication is an artificial, intentional, dialogic, collective act of freedom, aiming at creating codes that help us forget our inevitable death and the fundamental senselessness of our absorb existence.
Vilem Flusser
#7. We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
Laura Bohannan
#8. Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
Isaac Marion
#9. Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?
Ian McEwan
#10. She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.
Grace Metalious
#11. Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
Henry Miller
#12. Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
Christopher Hitchens
#13. I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only delaying the inevitable.
Jeremy Caldwell
#14. It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.
Lisa J. Shultz
#15. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.
Jack Kevorkian
#16. In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
Alan Clark
#17. Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept - the world aged, moved forward, yet I ... didn't.
Laura Kreitzer
#19. How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.
Travis Luedke
#20. In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he wanted to live. But, at that point, death was inevitable and nothing that had happened could be changed.
Stephen Craig
#21. Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
John Stossel
#22. If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
Mary Jo Putney
#23. Death is a part of life. It is inevitable. It is not to be feared
Kirsten Beyer
#24. She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
Gillian Flynn
#25. It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
Bert Murray
#26. This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. ... It has turned whole nations, such as the United States, into self-consuming machines of death.
Chris Hedges
#27. If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.
Alanna Knight
#28. Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal
Robert E.Lee
#29. In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.
Joan Halifax
#30. You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
David Carradine
#31. Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.
Tomi Ungerer
#32. As he left the room it seemed to him that he was walking between two eternities, on one side a list of the living, with its inevitable crossings-out, on the other - eternal exile. Eternal as the stars, as the galaxies.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#33. Death, loss, and limitations are inevitable in life. They are at the heart of being human.
Jennifer Kunst
#34. Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
Epictetus
#35. I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
Umar
#36. I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?
Frank Herbert
#37. On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist.
John Bellairs
#38. Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.
Dan Simmons
#39. So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
Libba Bray
#40. I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?" said Quain.
Adrian G. Hilder
#41. It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.
Nicholas Sparks
#42. They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
Steve Earle
#43. 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.
Richard P. Feynman
#44. There is no end. There is no cure. It gets worse with time. Cure. How can you cure an institution, we are bricks crumbling in the walls of despair. Death is inevitable for us all. But the insanity is here to stay.
Stephen Richards
#45. Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.
Pawan Mishra
#46. If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life.
Frank Warren
#47. What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.
Robert Charles Wilson
#48. Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it ... that's different.
Michael Haneke
#49. For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.
William Batchelder Greene
#50. The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression.
B.G. Bowers
#51. I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
Paulo Coelho
#52. What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I
Pierce Brown
#53. You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
David Attenborough
#54. I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.
Walter White
#55. Death is inevitable. Life is too. Even if Scion succeeds, there will be some who remain, because they hid well enough, because they aren't interesting or different enough to kill. Life, death, a binary.
Wildbow
#56. Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one's death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#57. But night came again, because night, like death and taxes, was inevitable.
Chloe Neill
#58. Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
Oliver Lodge
#59. Nothing is inevitable. We need just right efforts and we can avoid anything, even death.
M. T. Panchal
#61. You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.
All life does.
pg 217
Lesley Livingston
#63. Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
Niall Ferguson
#64. Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive ... My regular little dress rehearsal ... the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
Phil Klay
#66. Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Decay is inevitable, but death is not.
The RZA
#68. Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life.
Charles Stross
#69. But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable.
Neil Gaiman
#70. She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
Tess Gerritsen
#71. How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks.
"Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?
Roger Zelazny
#72. ... the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#73. Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
Bhagavad Gita
#74. While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.
Painful change just takes time.
Jessica Watts
#75. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Mo Yan
#76. She never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in front of her, plain and inevitable.
Elif Shafak
#77. Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.
Richard B. Lee
#78. The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
#79. Future is a meaningless word if you don't give your heart and soul to your dreams. What happens to us is never etched in stone, but determined by what we want to happen ... Death is inevitable, but life is what we can avoid, if we so choose.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#80. My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
George Washington
#81. Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
Colleen Hoover
#82. I think that when we wrestle with death ... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#84. The dead don't die. Death is something a living person suffers through, once the dead are gone from here. The departed don't know anything about dread, or longing, or the inevitable. They leave that to the survivors.
Scott Kelly
#85. There's peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song.
Sarah Ockler
#86. YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
Terry Pratchett
#87. It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.
Marty Rubin
#89. Love doesn't need consent or someone's approval. It is as inevitable as life and death.
Samreen Ahsan
#90. If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki
Brodi Ashton
#91. The world's pulse skipped a beat. Magic flooded in. "Yes." I grinned and grabbed the blanket. "Onward, my noble steed. To our inevitable doom and gory death." Thirty
Ilona Andrews
#92. I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.
Jimmy Carter
#93. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#94. We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#95. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.
Hillary Jordan
#96. What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#97. When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man's inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it.
Yuval Noah Harari
#98. It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
Pearl S. Buck
#99. Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
Don DeLillo
