Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.