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Religious literature6 quotes
For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God. — Job · 500 BCThe dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. — Psalm 115:17 · 450 BCFor I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. — Apostle Paul · 56The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know. — Muhammad · 632They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture. — Muhammad · 632If a man die, shall he live again? — Job · 500 BCPhilosophical literature5 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 BCEither 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 BCBut already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is not known to anyone except God. — Socrates · 399 BCDeath 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 BCIt is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world. — Socrates · 347 BCTragedy (play)2 quotes
To be or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616The 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 · 1616Comedy (play)1 quote
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where,
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot,
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice. — William Shakespeare · 1616Epic1 quote
In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998Epic (film)1 quote
In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998Epic poem1 quote
The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men. — Homer · 700 BCWar1 quote
In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998War (film)1 quote
In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998Wisdom literature1 quote
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