Epictetus Quotes

Death does determine life.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

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

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

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.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

The meaning of life is that it stops.