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17 quotes

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Topic·Fear of death✕clear

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

Epigrams · 103

★ 1.3

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Amelia · 1751

★ 1.9

Film · Western (film) · Western

You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · 1966

★ 1.9

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.

Dr. Nicholas Garrigan

The Last King of Scotland · 2006

★ 1.9

Poem · Didactic poem · Philosophical literature

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

On the Nature of Things · 55 BC

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play)

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

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.9

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

1931

★ 3.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy drama · Drama

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.8

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

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.

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 4.0

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 4.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

I'm a dying man, scared of the dark.

The Shootist · 1976

★ 4.7

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

1822

★ 5.0

Play · Drama (play)

Death in itself is nothing, but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

Aurenge-Zebe · 1675

★ 5.3

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.

The Old Astronomer · 1868

★ 5.3

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.

1625

★ 6.9