--- title: "4 Decay Quotes By Marcus Aurelius" description: "4 Decay quotes by Marcus Aurelius. Plus more from Marcus Aurelius and more Decay sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou_137986.jpg" --- > [All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou-thyself-in-ceaseless/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou_137986.jpg) > [The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-universal-nature-has-no-external-space-but-the-wondrous-part-of/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/marcus-aurelius-139_art_the-universal-nature-has-no-external-spa_221446.jpg) > [Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/can-we-wonder-that-men-perish-and-are-forgotten-when-their-noblest-2/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/marcus-aurelius-139_death_can-we-wonder-that-men-perish-and-are-fo_1479659.jpg) > [There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/there-is-change-in-all-things-you-yourself-are-subject-to-continual/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_there-is-change-in-all-things-you-yourse_2707313.jpg) ## Other authors on Decay ## More by Marcus Aurelius > [A man should be upright, not kept upright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/a-man-should-be-upright-not-kept-upright/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Everything is mere opinion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/everything-is-mere-opinion/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-any-man-has-done-wrong-the-harm-is-his-own-but-perhaps-he-has-not/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/pray-look-upon-the-plants-and-birds-the-ants-spiders-and-bees-and-you/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-should-remark-the-grace-and-fascination-that-there-is-even-in-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/my-true-self-is-free-i-cannot-be-contained/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-best-revenge-is-to-be-unlike-him-who-performed-the-injury/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/nothing-befalls-any-man-which-he-is-not-fitted-to-endure/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/adorn-thyself-with-simplicity-and-with-indifference-towards-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/let-it-be-your-constant-method-to-look-into-the-design-of-people-s/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/our-life-is-a-warfare-and-a-mere-pilgrimage/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-therefore-it-be-a-thing-external-that-causes-thy-grief-know-that/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/frightened-of-change-but-what-can-exist-without-it-what-s-closer-to/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-are-too-much-accustomed-to-attribute-to-a-single-cause-that-which/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/at-dawn-when-you-have-trouble-getting-out-of-bed-tell-yourself-i-have/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decay/marcus-aurelius/#itemlist", "name": "4 Decay Quotes By Marcus Aurelius", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Aurelius" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou-thyself-in-ceaseless/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou_137986.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou_137986.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/marcus-aurelius-139_all-things_all-things-are-in-the-act-of-change-thou_137986.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the…” — Marcus Aurelius", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. 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