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Topic·Life and death✕clear

Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

Phrixus · 400 BC

★ 1.2

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.8

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Life of Pi (novel) · 2001

★ 1.8

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

1962

★ 1.9

Film · Action (film) · Adventure (film) · Action · Adventure

You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · 1989

★ 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

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

65

★ 2.0

Poem · Newspaper

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper · 1844

★ 2.0

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 2.0

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

1936

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseens. Why in this truth find sorrow?

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Philosophical literature

In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life.

On the Nature of Things · 50 BC

★ 2.1

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

65

★ 2.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1922

★ 2.1

Poem · Epic poem

I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

For a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

931 BC

★ 2.4

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.9

Film · War (film) · War

The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.

Full Metal Jacket · 1987

★ 2.9

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

1893

★ 3.5

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

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