Quotes · Skopia

30 quotes

Braveheart · 1995

★ 7.5

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 · 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

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

Biography

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1769

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

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

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 3.7

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

Sermon

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Jonathan Edwards

1834

★ 3.6

Poem

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1873

★ 3.6

Essay

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

1922

★ 3.6

Film · Epic (film) · Fantasy (film) · Epic · Fantasy

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life... Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 2001

★ 3.6

Poem

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

1893

★ 3.5

Essay

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.9

Film · War (film) · War

The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.

Private Joker

Full Metal Jacket · 1987

★ 2.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

931 BC

★ 2.4

Poem · Epic poem

I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseens. Why in this truth find sorrow?

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Philosophical literature

In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things · 50 BC

★ 2.1

Play

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Seneca

★ 2.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1922

★ 2.1

Letter

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca

★ 2.0

Poem · Newspaper

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper · 1844

★ 2.0

Essay

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 2.0

Poem

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

1936

★ 2.0

Novel

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

1962

★ 1.9

Film · Action (film) · Adventure (film) · Action · Adventure

You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.

Grail Knight

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · 1989

★ 1.9

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

If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.

Dr. Nicholas Garrigan

The Last King of Scotland · 2006

★ 1.9

Novel

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.8

Novel

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Yann Martel

Life of Pi (novel) · 2001

★ 1.8

Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

Euripides

Phrixus · 400 BC

★ 1.2

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