Quotes

Quotes about life, death, and letting go.

Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

The movie Gladiator attributes this quote to Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor. The film is highly stylized, however, and we could not link it to anything Aurelius was known to have actually said or written himself directly.

Don’t take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.

I’ve completely lost track of who said this one first too… great concept though!

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The universe is flux, life is opinion / The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it

Marcus Aurelius

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