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Inevitable Death Quotes

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Fall, Earthquakes, Inevitable Death
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

Emilie Autumn
Depression, Suicide, Inevitable Death

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
Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

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
Years, Inevitable Death, Forever
Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

Ian Mcewan
Inevitable Death, Doe, Inevitable
Ian McEwan, Michael Berkeley (1983). “Or shall we die?: words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley”, Jonathan Cape

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
Inevitable Death, Political, Politics

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