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

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Braveheart · 1995

★ 7.5

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 · Drama (film) · Drama

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

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

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.

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.

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 3.7

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

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

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

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.

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

★ 3.6

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

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.

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.

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.

On the Nature of Things · 50 BC

★ 2.1

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

65

★ 2.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1922

★ 2.1

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