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

Ingen människa kan leva med Döden för ögonen och vetskapen om alltings intighet.

The Seventh Seal

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Topic

Facing death Fear of death Death Oblivion

Speaker

Antonius Block

Actor

Max von Sydow

Source

The Seventh Seal

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy drama (film) Drama (film) Fantasy drama Drama

Language

Swedish

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

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

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When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Max Frisch

I'm Not Stiller

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Topic
Nature of love Love
Speaker
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Author

Max Frisch
Source
I'm Not Stiller
Medium
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Language
German
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Frisch, Max. Stiller [I'm Not Stiller]. Suhrkamp, 1954, bk. 2.

Another quote about Death

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Slavery Death

Author

Homer
Source
The Odyssey
Medium
Poem
Genre
Epic poem
Language
Greek
Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

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I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was... Really-I was alive.

Walter White

Breaking Bad

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Doing what you love Selling drugs
Speaker
Walter White
Actor
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Source
Breaking Bad
Medium
TV program
Genre
Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama
Language
English
Time
2013 2010s 21st century
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Citation

"Felina." Breaking Bad, written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Vince Gilligan, season 5, episode 16, High Bridge Productions and Gran Via Productions, 2013.