Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. But if there is no harm to the elements themselves in each continually changing into another, why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements?

Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms, or annihilation, it is either extinction or change. 

How quickly things disappear: in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the memory of them.

Think continually that all kinds of men, pursuits, and nations are dead.

Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever.

When somebody’s wife or child dies, to a man we all routinely say, ‘Well, that’s part of life.’ But if one of our own family is involved, then right away it’s ‘Poor, poor me!’ We would do better to remember how we react when a similar loss afflicts others.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able – be good.

Speaking for myself, I hope death overtakes me when I’m occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.

On the occasion of every act ask yourself, “How is this with respect to me? Will I regret it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone”.

Death and pain are not frightening, it’s the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, ‘Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.’

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

A brief existence is common to all things, and yet you avoid and pursue all things as if they would be eternal.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

“Nobody on their death bed ever worried about their bank balance.” 

“If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead,” 

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.” 

“The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.” 

“Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. ” 

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality” 

“The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.”