Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Memories, Grieving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

• The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Meditation, Philosopher

• No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Country, Immortality

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 15), translated, 45 BC.

• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Death, Dying

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 49), translated, 45 BC.

• There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Roots, Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.254

• The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Sight

  "On Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

• Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Regret, Home

• I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Quitting

• Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Men, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2321, Delphi Classics

• Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Men, Demand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

• I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
  [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Inns

• The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
  [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Lasts, Doe

• I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
  [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Wish To Die, Care

• For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Courage, Men

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