Seneca the Younger Quotes

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I'm not afraid of death at all.