Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

The living are just the dead on holiday

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.