Seneca the Younger Quotes

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

Life is long if it is full.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.