Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Everything that gets born dies.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

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.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.