All MARCUS AURELIUS Quotes about “Death”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”
“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
“Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.”
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.”
“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.”
“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”
“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.”
“It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.”
“Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”

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