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Death Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
- It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we…
- The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
- Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
- He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt…
- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
- If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and…
- Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
- Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and…
- Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
- If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the…
- Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service…
- Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
- He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore…
- From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible…
- Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
- Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your…
- Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
- Death smiles at everyman.. all a man can do is smile back..
More Death Quotes
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- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden