Ovid on Death

“Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi mortis imago. Wherever you look there is nothing but the image of death.”

“Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores. Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.”

“Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidæ nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.”

“Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet. Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.”

“Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas. We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.”