Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.