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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940 This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999 He gave up the ghost. — Luke 23:46 · 61 Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599 I am Death. — Death · 1957 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. — Francis Bacon · 1625 All 123 quotes →

Fear of death15 quotes

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. — Francis Bacon · 1625 Death in itself is nothing, but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden · 1675 Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night. — Sarah Williams · 1868 Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000 To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BC No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957 All 15 quotes →

Life and death14 quotes

Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007 Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BC Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. Now, mostly dead is slightly alive. — Miracle Max · 1987 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873 The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658 All 14 quotes →

Life11 quotes

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999 Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007 Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838 Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873 The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658 All 11 quotes →

The human condition11 quotes

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die. — Albert Camus · 1953 Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838 Age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon · 1625 It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal. — John Donne · 1621 We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989 I heard the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats · 1903 All 11 quotes →

Inevitability of death10 quotes

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999 Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000 We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995 Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838 We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying. — D.H. Lawrence · 1932 I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. — Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1928 All 10 quotes →

The afterlife10 quotes

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BC Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night. — Socrates · 339 BC Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838 I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1910 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BC There is no one who returns from beyond that he may tell of their state that he may tell of their lot that he may set our hearts at ease until we make our journey to the place where they have gone. — Harper's Songs · 1700 BC All 10 quotes →

Facing death8 quotes

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999 No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957 A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. — Jack London · 1902 I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. — Private Witt · 1998 Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BC Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012 All 8 quotes →

Mystery of death7 quotes

Death in itself is nothing, but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden · 1675 Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1925 Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933 There is no one who returns from beyond that he may tell of their state that he may tell of their lot that he may set our hearts at ease until we make our journey to the place where they have gone. — Harper's Songs · 1700 BC The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? — William Shakespeare · 1616 Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC All 7 quotes →

Death as a blessing6 quotes

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. — Mark Twain · 1894 He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616 Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960 O Death! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! — Robert Burns · 1784 Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old, and weary, and broken of heart, whose burdens be heavy upon them, and who would lie down and be at rest. — Mark Twain · 1883 Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain; The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain. — John Clare · 1841

Nature of death5 quotes

How long does a man spend dying? — Pablo Neruda · 1958 We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360 All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. — John Donne · 1624 Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922 Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860

Oblivion5 quotes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BC No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BC Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. — Ecclesiastes 12:7 · 931 BC

The soul4 quotes

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838 Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BC Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BC If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BC

Dying3 quotes

We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360 I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. — Private Witt · 1998 It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. — Henry Fielding · 1751

Grim Reaper3 quotes

I am Death. — Death · 1957 Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957 When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words. — Flannery O'Connor · 1959

Old age3 quotes

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas · 1951 Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. — Herman Melville · 1851 Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941

Shortness of life3 quotes

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873 Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885 We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. — Hermann Hesse · 1930

Slavery3 quotes

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. — Homer · 700 BC All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960 Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960

Aging2 quotes

Age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon · 1625 There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682

Can't take it with you2 quotes

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. — Ecclesiastes 5:15 · 931 BC Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him. No one goes away and then comes back. — The Song of the Harper · 2600 BC

Carpe diem2 quotes

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999 We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989

Death as equalizer2 quotes

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BC O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies). — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1614

Ephemeral nature of life2 quotes

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885 We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. — Hermann Hesse · 1930

Eternal life2 quotes

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? — Apostle Paul · 55 If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BC

Immortality2 quotes

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen · 1975 If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on. — Stevie Smith · 1969

Living life to the fullest2 quotes

Man and animals2 quotes

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933 The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare · 1616

Moment of death2 quotes

He gave up the ghost. — Luke 23:46 · 61 A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. — Jack London · 1902

Original sin2 quotes

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. — Mark Twain · 1894 Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. — Apostle Paul · 56

The Grim Reaper2 quotes

Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. — Revelation 6:8 · 90 And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. — Sir Walter Scott · 1808

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