Seneca the Younger Quotes

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

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

We like lists because we don't want to die.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

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

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

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

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

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

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

You know, it's an interesting think when you consider... The Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?