Meditations 9:21

When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its conclusion, it's a kind of death. And it doesn't harm us.

Think about your life: childhood, boyhood, youth, old age.

Every transformation a kind of dying. Was that so terrible?

Think about life with your grandfather, your mother, your adopted father. Realize how many other deaths and transformations and endings there have been and ask yourself: Was that so terrible?

Then neither will the close of your life be—its ending and transformation.