Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

• The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Philosophical, Dying

  Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.47, OUP Oxford

• 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

• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

• There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Dying, Happens

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Blessed, Men, Dying

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