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Facing death15 quotes
There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air. — Alan Seeger · 1916Will 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 BCI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — Thomas Hobbes · 1679No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957All 15 quotes →Death8 quotes
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957A 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 · 1902I 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 · 1998Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCShut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012All 8 quotes →Fear of death3 quotes
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCYou 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 · 1966Animals1 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 BCBirds1 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 BCDying1 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 · 1998God and war1 quote
There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943Gratitude1 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 · 2015Hanging1 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 · 1966Inevitability of death1 quote
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Life1 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 · 2015Moment of death1 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 · 1902Mystery of death1 quote
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — Thomas Hobbes · 1679Oblivion1 quote
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Regret1 quote
When you die, you're gonna regret the things that you don't do. — Ricky Roma · 1992Rhythm of life1 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 · 1916Swans1 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 BCThe human condition1 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 · 1951War1 quote
There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943