Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

We die, and we do not die.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

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

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

You live you die and death not ends it.

To be immortal and then die

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.