Lucretius Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

  Lucretius

  Death, Past, Leaving

• And many kinds of creatures must have died,
  Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
  For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
  Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
  By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
  And many have been entrusted to our care,
  Commended by their usefulness to us.
  For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
  Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

  Lucretius

  Life, Death, Science

• You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

  Lucretius

  Death, Generations, May

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1866). “T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex”, p.83

• Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
  Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
  [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
  Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
  Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

  Lucretius

  Death, Sleep, Forgotten

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