Lucretius Quotes on Life
Titus Lucretius Carus was a 1st-century BC Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher, known for his sole surviving work, the long Latin poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things. This page collects quotes attributed to Lucretius on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation.”
Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem; non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas, sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est. -
Attributed to Lucretius:
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not.”
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“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”
Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret. -
“The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.”
Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extra processit longe flammantia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.