Seneca the Younger Quotes

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.