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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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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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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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
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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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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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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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Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
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I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.
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When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
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The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
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The best way to eat is to eat lots of different kinds of foods. Except for breast milk, no one food is perfect.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
