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There are no atheists in the fox holes.

William Thomas Cummings

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Cummings, William Thomas. Quoted in I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, by Carlos P. Romulo. Doubleday, 1943, ch. 15.

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

The Green Mile

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The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

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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

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Seeger, Alan. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." Poems. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.

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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

Quoted in Phaedo, by Plato

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Socrates. Quoted in Φαίδων [Phaedo], written by Plato. c. 360 BC.

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Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedo." Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, written by Plato, translated by G. M. A. Grube and John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing, 2002.

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

The Seventh Seal

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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Hobbes, Thomas. Last Words. 1679, Hardwick Hall, England, UK.

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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

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The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

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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

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

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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

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Tillich, Paul. "The Courage to Be." 1950-1951, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

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Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be. Yale University Press, 2014.

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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

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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

Glengarry Glen Ross

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Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

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

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 830.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 830.

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Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.

Breaking Bad

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"Say My Name." Breaking Bad, written by Thomas Schnauz, directed by Thomas Schnauz, season 5, episode 7, High Bridge Productions/Gran Via Productions/Sony Pictures Television, 2012.

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