Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Mortality defines the human condition.

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 is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Our time on Earth is so random.

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

The living are just the dead on holiday