Death Quotes by Seneca the Younger

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

— Seneca the Younger

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

— Seneca the Younger

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

— Seneca the Younger

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

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The most happy ought to wish for death.

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Life without literary studies is death.

— Seneca the Younger

After death there is nothing.

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Mercy often inflicts death.

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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

— Seneca the Younger

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

— Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

— Seneca the Younger

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

— Seneca the Younger

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life…

— Seneca the Younger

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die…

— Seneca the Younger

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of…

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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out…

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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time,…

— Seneca the Younger

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of…

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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and…

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Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries…

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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least…

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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…

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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

— Seneca the Younger

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

— Seneca the Younger

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

— Seneca the Younger

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

— Seneca the Younger

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

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There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

— Seneca the Younger

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

— Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!…

— Seneca the Younger

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn…

— Seneca the Younger