“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”

“The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.”

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

“Terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere . . . simply decide to hate [others]. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.”

“[...] death never replies, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't know what to say in the face of the greatest of human sorrows.”

“Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are.”