Death Quote by Epictetus

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain…

— 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

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Death Will Come with Your Eyes" Death will come with your eyes— this death that accompanies us from morning till night, sleepless, deaf, like…

— Cesare Pavese

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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

— Seneca the Younger

“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn’t need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the future. Just…

— Brent Green

“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human compassion. For…

— Richard Paul Evans