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Novel · War novel

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1940

★ 7.3

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Fight Club

1999

★ 7.3

Scripture · Religious literature

He gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:46

61

★ 7.1

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 7.0

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

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 7.0

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

Economic literature

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

1924

★ 6.9

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

1975

★ 6.9

Speech · Commencement address

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

2005

★ 6.9

For when the One Great Scorer Comes to mark against your name, He writes-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.

1941

★ 6.9

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.

1951

★ 6.9

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

The Sea Close By · 1953

★ 6.1

Poem · Epic poem

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.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 5.7

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

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Peter Pan · 1904

★ 5.3

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking…

The Green Mile · 1999

★ 5.2

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Silence · 1827

★ 5.1

TV show · Comedy (TV)

It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Monty Python's Flying Circus · 1969

★ 5.1

Essay · Religious literature

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

The Portable Atheist · 2007

★ 5.1

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