Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

no one dies happy, you can only die well

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

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

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

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.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.