Seneca the Younger Quotes

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

All who are born are always dying.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying