Epictetus Quotes

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Man always dies before he is fully born.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.