Life Quotes Quote by Epicurus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Why should I fear death?”

“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”

“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.”

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”

“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”

“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”