Quotes About Death

I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me how to die well and live well.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate—and who can live off their death.

If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -from That intention is judge of our actions

As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that

Meditar previamente sobre a morte é meditar previamente sobre a liberdade.Quem aprendeu a morrer desaprendeu a se subjugar. Não há nenhum mal na vida para aquele que bem compreendeu que a privação da vida não é um mal. Saber morrer liberta-nos de toda sujeição e imposição.

Al wat ik verlang van een boek is dat het mij op een gedegen manier bezighoudt en vermaakt; en voor zover ik studeer ben ik er alleen maar op uit de kennis over mijzelf te verdiepen en te leren hoe ik op de juiste wijze moet leven en sterven.

Felsefenin insanlara, yaÅŸamaya baÅŸlarken de, ölüme doÄŸru giderken de söyleyecekleri vard?r.

Ä°nsan?n doÄŸuÅŸunu görmekten herkes kaçar, ama ölümünü görmeÄŸe hep koÅŸa koÅŸa gideriz. Ä°nsan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z, ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz. Ä°nsan? yaparken gizlenip utanmak bir ödev, onu öldürmesini bilmekse birçok erdemleri içine alan bir ÅŸereftir.

If you do not know how to die, never trouble yourself; nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take no care for it.

Es ar nodomu piejaucu n?vei nedudz r?gtuma, lai, ?emot v?r? t?s pieejam?bu, kav?tu j?s p?r?k alkat?gi un nesapr?t?gi tiekties p?c t?s.

Dünyaya geldiÄŸimiz gün bir yandan yaÅŸamaya, bir yandan ölmeye baÅŸlars?n?z.

Hayattan sonra ölümdesiniz; ama hayatta iken ölmektesiniz.

Kendini canl? iken ölü göstereni ölü iken canl? görebilir herkes.

But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.

For my part, I shall take care, if I can, that my death discover nothing that my life has not first and openly declared.

he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36

Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est préméditation de la liberté. Qui a appris à mourir, il a désappris à servir. Le savoir mourir nous affranchit de toute sujétion et contrainte. Il n'y a rien de mal en la vie pour celui qui a bien compris que la privation de la vie n'est pas mal.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Our main enemies are held to be death, poverty and pain. Yet everyone knows that death, called the dreadest of all dreadful things, is by others called the only haven from life's torments, our natural sovereign good, the only guarantor of our freedom, the common and ready cure of all our ills;2 some await it trembling and afraid: others [C] bear it more easily than life.3 [B] One man complains that death is too available:4

Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.