“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
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Death Quotes
26 quotes on death, loss and mortality — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Say hello to my little friend!”
Tony Montana · Scarface, 1983
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Clemenza · The Godfather, 1972
“When I die, just keep playing the records.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm not sure I will live to be 28 years old.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Once you are dead, you are made for life.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
Jimi Hendrix
“There's a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“We will keep the Cube from the Decepticons at all costs, or die trying.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“One shall stand, one shall fall.”
Optimus Prime · The Transformers: The Movie, 1986
“I lost a lot of people, that's why I move different.”
Rod Wave
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Bronte · Wuthering Heights, 1847
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
