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Seneca: No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of its loss.

Death is the easiest loss of all to bear: nothing is lost with less discomfort that that which, when lost, cannot be missed.

Schopenhauer: What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it will be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams ... and so we search in vain. Much would be gained if through timely advice and instruction, young people could eradicate from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them

Philosophers are always directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death... forever struggling to attain the wisdom only death affords. In life, we are constantly subject to the deceptions of sense and the delusions of desire.