Seneca Quotes on Suffering

"If you want to be rid of all anxiety, suppose that anything you are afraid of happening is going to happen in any case, then mentally calculate all the evil involved in it and appraise your own fear: you will undoubtedly come to realize that what you fear is either not great or not long-lasting."

- Seneca

"Then I began to say to myself how foolishly we fear some things more or less although the same end awaits us all. For what difference does it make whether a watchtower or a mountain collapses in somebody? None, of course. Yet you will find people who are more afraid of the mountain falling, though both are equally fatal. So true is it that fear contemplates not results but what brings them about."

- Seneca

"Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."

- Seneca

"There can be no place of exile within the world since nothing within the world is alien to men."

- Seneca