Theophrastus Quotes

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

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

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

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