Fear Not Death For The Sooner We Die The Longer We

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.”

“So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.”