Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Today will die tomorrow.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Time is death.

You cannot build a house for last year's summer.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

To conquer death you only have to die.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

After a while you learn that everything stops.