Epicurus: Quotes about death

Epicurus was ancient Greek philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on death.
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“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.”

Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus

Death , Evil

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

Epicurus
Death

“Those who were best able to provide themselves with the means of security against their neighbors, being thus in possession of the surest guarantee, passed the most agreeable life in each other's society; and their enjoyment of the fullest intimacy was such that, if one of them died before his time, the survivors did not mourn his death as if it called for sympathy.”

Epicurus

40
Sovereign Maxims

Life , Death , Time

“Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.”

Epicurus

The "Tetrapharmakos" [τετραφάρμακος], or "The four-part cure" of Epicurus, from the "Herculaneum Papyrus", 1005, 4.9–14 of Philodemus, as translated in The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (1994) edited by D. S. Hutchinson, p. vi

Death , God , Fear

“It is impossible for a man who secretly violates the terms of the agreement not to harm or be harmed to feel confident that he will remain undiscovered, even if he has already escaped ten thousand times; for until his death he is never sure that he will not be detected.”

Epicurus

35
Sovereign Maxims

Death , Feeling , Confidence , Time

“The flesh receives as unlimited the limits of pleasure; and to provide it requires unlimited time. But the mind, intellectually grasping what the end and limit of the flesh is, and banishing the terrors of the future, procures a complete and perfect life, and we have no longer any need of unlimited time. Nevertheless the mind does not shun pleasure, and even when circumstances make death imminent, the mind does not lack enjoyment of the best life.”

Epicurus

20
Sovereign Maxims

Life , Death , Pleasure , Time