“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
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ancient Greek philosopher -341–-269 BCRelated quotes
“Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
Aviendha
(15 October 1991)
Source: The Dragon Reborn
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar
“When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Source: Julius Caesar
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.”
In hoc enim fallimur, quod mortem prospicimus: magna pars eius iam praeterit; quidquid aetatis retro est mors tenet.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time