Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• 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 you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, God, Death

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Moving On, Death

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

• Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Philosophical, Secret

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

• Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, May, Thee

• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Philosophical, Dying

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

• The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Dying, Tests

• 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, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Science, Perception

• 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 bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

• Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Men, Names

• 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 reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Maturity, Thoughtful

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Time, Hands

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, 17. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, If There Is A God, Wells

• Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Ephemeral, Remember

  Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.31, OUP Oxford

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Nature, Thinking

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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