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15 quotes

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Topic·Facing death✕clear

There are no atheists in the fox holes.

William Thomas Cummings

1943

★ 6.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking…

The Green Mile · 1999

★ 5.2

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air.

1916

★ 5.1

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

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.

Plato, Phaedo · 360 BC

★ 3.9

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

1679

★ 3.8

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

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

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.8

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.

1902

★ 3.5

Film · Epic (film) · War (film) · Epic · War

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.

The Thin Red Line · 1998

★ 3.5

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

1951

★ 3.5

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.

2015

★ 3.5

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

When you die, you're gonna regret the things that you don't do.

Glengarry Glen Ross · 1992

★ 2.2

Poem · Didactic poem · Philosophical literature

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

On the Nature of Things · 55 BC

★ 2.1

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

My body is ready, but I am not.

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 2.1

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.

Mike Ehrmantraut

Breaking Bad · 2012

★ 2.1

Film · Western (film) · Western

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!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · 1966

★ 1.9