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123 quotes

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

★ 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

I am Death.

Death

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 7.0

Essay

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.

Francis Bacon

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.

Woody Allen

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.

Steve Jobs

2005

★ 6.9

Poem

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.

Grantland Rice

1941

★ 6.9

Poem

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.

Dylan Thomas

1951

★ 6.9

Essay

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

Albert Camus

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.

Homer

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.

John Dryden

Aurenge-Zebe · 1675

★ 5.3

Poem

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.

Sarah Williams

The Old Astronomer · 1868

★ 5.3

Play

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie

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…

Percy Wetmore

The Green Mile · 1999

★ 5.2

Poem

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.

Thomas Hood

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.

Mr Praline

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

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 4.6

Letter

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1925

★ 4.5

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

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

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 4.0

Novel

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Charles Dickens

Bleak House · 1853

★ 4.0

Novel · Historical literature

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

A Tale of Two Cities · 1859

★ 4.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

Either 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

Plato, Apology · 339 BC

★ 3.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra · 1607

★ 3.9

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We shall die alone.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1662

★ 3.9

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace

Braveheart · 1995

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For 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 BC

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

Death, 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

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 3.8

Poem · Magazine

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 3.8

Novel

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 3.8

Novel

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 3.8

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

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

Antonius Block

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.8

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

Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together.

Antonius Block

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.8

Poem

How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

1958

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 15:55 · 55

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest · 1616

★ 3.7

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