“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
XI, 91.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“More cruel than death itself, to die at that particular conjuncture!”
O morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius!
Letter 16, 6.
Letters, Book V
“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum
aut mors ipsa nihil.
Book III, line 39 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The human heart beats itself to death.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
Source: Don't Waste Your Life