Seneca the Younger Quotes

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.

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.