Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

A life well used procures a happy death.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

A good life is a main argument.