Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)
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In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.
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Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.
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Occasionally when a decision has been made by the ego, the subconscious will change it, because the decision is obviously such an unwise one.
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Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
