Seneca the Younger Quotes

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.