Marcus Aurelius Quotes about Death

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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

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

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.

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

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

Marcus Aurelius

Death, Dying, Tests

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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Death, Philosophical, Secret

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

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

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

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Death, Philosophical, Dying

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

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

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Death, Ephemeral, Remember

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

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.

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius

Death, May, Thee

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