Death Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

— Marcus Aurelius

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

— Marcus Aurelius

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

— Marcus Aurelius

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

— Marcus Aurelius

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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“Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of…

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Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives…

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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it…

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast…

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There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with…

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“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and…

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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the…

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It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point…

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In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of…

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries…

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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old…

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“He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is…

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“All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death,…

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“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and…

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“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same…

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“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which…

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If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth…

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“What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping…

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“He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom he is remembered,…

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Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,…

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Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to…

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,…

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“Of the life of man the duration is but a point, its substance streaming away, its perception dim, the fabric of the…

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“Thy speech is not right, O man! if thou supposest that he that is of any worth at all, should apprehend either…

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“Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts…

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“Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For…

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Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do…

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“In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this”

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Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought,…

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Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are…

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“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something…

— Marcus Aurelius