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Antonius Block2 quotes
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Alan Seeger1 quote
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air. — Alan Seeger · 1916Jack London1 quote
A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. — Jack London · 1902Lucretius1 quote
Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCMike Ehrmantraut1 quote
Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012Oliver Sacks1 quote
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. — Oliver Sacks · 2015Paul Tillich1 quote
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. — Paul Tillich · 1951Percy Wetmore1 quote
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Private Witt1 quote
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 · 1998Ricky Roma1 quote
When you die, you're gonna regret the things that you don't do. — Ricky Roma · 1992Socrates1 quote
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCThomas Hobbes1 quote
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — Thomas Hobbes · 1679Tuco1 quote
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! — Tuco · 1966William Thomas Cummings1 quote
There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943