Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Seneca the Younger

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Long
  • China
  • Pollution

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Never

• Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Long
  • Career
  • Myself

• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Long
  • You
  • Almost

• Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Death

• The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Long
  • Forever

• You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,And long enough to see some change.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Long
  • Live
  • Light

• Man makes a death which Nature never made.

  

  Edward Young
  • Nature
  • Death

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

  

  David Wenham
  • School
  • House
  • Parents

• It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips
  • She
  • Mother

• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Long
  • Death
  • Moments