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Topic·Inevitability of death✕clear

Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 5.4

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

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

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

★ 4.5

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

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

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque · 1881

★ 3.8

Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

396

★ 3.7

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying.

Last Poems · 1932

★ 3.6

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

There's a saying, every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1959

★ 3.6

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 3.5

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1928

★ 3.5

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato, Phaedo · 360 BC

★ 2.4

Scripture · Religious literature

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you be in raised-up towers.

The Quran, The Koran, 2:225 · 632

★ 2.2

Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 2.1

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

1808

★ 1.9

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

1860

★ 1.9