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Religious literature19 quotes
He gave up the ghost. — Luke 23:46 · 61Death 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 · 2007For 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 BCO death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? — Apostle Paul · 55It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal. — John Donne · 1621The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BCAll 19 quotes →Drama14 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999I am Death. — Death · 1957We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957All 14 quotes →Drama (film)13 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999I am Death. — Death · 1957We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957All 13 quotes →Philosophical literature8 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 BCWe shall die alone. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Either 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 BCDeath, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are death is not come, and when death is come, we are not. — Epicurus · 240Death 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 BCTherefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCAll 8 quotes →Historical drama5 quotes
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Historical drama (film)5 quotes
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Tragedy (play)5 quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare · 1607The 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 · 1616I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits. — John Webster · 1614Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare · 1606Epic4 quotes
We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960I 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 · 1998Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960Epic (film)4 quotes
We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960I 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 · 1998Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960Fantasy drama4 quotes
I am Death. — Death · 1957No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Fantasy drama (film)4 quotes
I am Death. — Death · 1957No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Biography3 quotes
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson · 1777Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampComedy (play)3 quotes
He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616Suns, that set, may rise again:
But if, once, we lose this light,
'Tis with us perpetual night. — Ben Jonson · 1606The 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 · 1616Crime2 quotes
Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. — Peter Clemenza · 1972Didactic poem2 quotes
Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCDeath 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 BCHistorical literature2 quotes
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens · 1859O 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 · 1614War2 quotes
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 · 1998Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all. — Father Dupree · 1957War (film)2 quotes
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 · 1998Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all. — Father Dupree · 1957Western2 quotes
We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen. — Thomas Dunson · 1948You 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! — Tuco · 1966Western (film)2 quotes
We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen. — Thomas Dunson · 1948You 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! — Tuco · 1966Adventure novel1 quote
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 · 1885Biography (film)1 quote
Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966Comedic play1 quote
'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. — Christopher Bullock · 1716Comedy1 quote
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 · 1987Comedy (TV)1 quote
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. — Mr Praline · 1969Comedy (film)1 quote
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 · 1987Commencement address1 quote
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. — Steve Jobs · 2005Crime (TV)1 quote
Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012Crime (film)1 quote
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. — Peter Clemenza · 1972Drama (TV)1 quote
Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012