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Seneca the Younger Quotes about Death

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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Philosophical, Wish
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Seneca the Younger
Birthday, Tattoo, Death
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Long, Dying

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Seneca the Younger
Life, Death, Kindness

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Freedom, Political

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Sorrow, Debt

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Evil, Dying

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, Death
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Doe, Want

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Seneca the Younger
Death, Philosopher, Whole

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Alive, Literature

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Death, Wise
"Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Death

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

Seneca the Younger
Death

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

Seneca the Younger
Death, Justice, Expecting

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

Seneca the Younger
Death, Punishment, Favors

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

Seneca the Younger
Death, Soul And Body, Long

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Men, Joy

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

Seneca the Younger
Death, Suicidal, Punishment

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Anger, Philosophical
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Wish, Ought

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Mean, Blessing

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

Seneca the Younger
Death, After Death

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Dying, Wonder

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

Seneca the Younger
Death, Pain, Release
"Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

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