Epictetus Quotes

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

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

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

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.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.