Death Quote by Epictetus

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

— Epictetus

“Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have…

— Epictetus

“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light.…

— Philip Larkin

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery…

— John Bunyan

“Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.”

— Jindrich Styrsky

“After Death nothing is, and nothing, death, The utmost limit of a gasp of breath. Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of…

— John Wilmot

When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to…

— Madison Cawein

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

“Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death,…

— Emily Brontë

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn…

— Robert Montgomery