Seneca the Younger Quotes

We die, because we live.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

We're all immortal until we die.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

You can't have living without dying.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

He that begins to live, begins to die.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.