Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Seneca the Younger

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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • People
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Man
  • Idea

• I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Fear

• With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Integrity
  • Guilt

• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Death
  • Struggle
  • Old

• It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • You
  • Fear
  • Difficult

• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Courage

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • People
  • Long
  • Fear

• Imagine how we would feel if I began this section saying, Today, violence against women is rightly applauded. We would know I favored the death of women; when we applaud for violence against men, we favor the death of men. We do it because we have learned that the more effectively we prepare men to sacrifice themselves, the more we are protected.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• We are at a unique moment in history - when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his - the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • History
  • Death
  • Law

• The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Death
  • Question

• If we're not able to launch our own people and operate our own spacecraft anymore then, you know, space - whether it should be or not, it's seen as like a harbinger of technology. If you can fly people into space, if you can operate into space, then you've got high technology and if you're the leader of that, then you're the leader in technology. If we lose that on a more or less permanent basis, or for a long period of time, my fear is that it will creep into the national psyche in all areas and we as a nation as a whole will kind of be diminished.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Long
  • Red
  • Ignorance

• My brother is really talented.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Brother

• Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Movie
  • Style
  • Filmmakers

• Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Grim