26 February 2018

Memento Mori!

Chapter 12: Paragraph 36.
Last lines of “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius

“You have lived as a citizen in a great city. Five years or a hundred – what’s the difference? The laws make no distinction.
And to be sent away from it, not by a tyrant or a dishonest judge, but by Nature, who first invited you in – why is that so terrible?


So make your exit with grace – the same grace shown to you”

As I read somebody else put it…
Death is the final act in our play of life. No need to fear it. You know it’s coming. Just make sure you act the hell out of your role while you’re here.



Posted February 26, 2018 by Rajib Roy in category "Musings

1 COMMENTS :

  1. By Manny Singh on

    “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

    ― Rabindranath Tagore

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