J.D.: Your kidneys aren't responding to medication anymore. I'm afraid we're going to have to start you on dialysis.
Mrs. Tanner: Ooh, not a big fan of dialysis.
J.D.: Yeah, unfortunately we really don't have a choice.
Mrs. Tanner: Actually, I do have a choice.
J.D.: (thinking) [There are] certain things you never expect to come out of a person's mouth.
Mrs. Tanner: I think I'm ready to die.
Mrs. Tanner: Ooh, not a big fan of dialysis.
J.D.: Yeah, unfortunately we really don't have a choice.
Mrs. Tanner: Actually, I do have a choice.
J.D.: (thinking) [There are] certain things you never expect to come out of a person's mouth.
Mrs. Tanner: I think I'm ready to die.
— Scrubs, "My Old Lady"
[Geralt looks for Princess Cirilla, grabs a random Nilfgardian Soldier, puts him at sword’s point]
Geralt: Tell me what I want to know and you live.
Soldier: [calm] I am already saved.
[Geralt looks him carefully in the eyes, sighs and run him through with his sword.]
Soldier: [struggling to speak] We shall be reborn anew. Thus it shall be. Watch for the signs. What these signs shall be I say unto--
[Geralt stabs him through the throat]
Geralt: Tell me what I want to know and you live.
Soldier: [calm] I am already saved.
[Geralt looks him carefully in the eyes, sighs and run him through with his sword.]
Soldier: [struggling to speak] We shall be reborn anew. Thus it shall be. Watch for the signs. What these signs shall be I say unto--
[Geralt stabs him through the throat]
Kazim: If you don't let go Dr. Jones, we'll both die!
Indiana Jones: Then we'll die!
Kazim: My soul is prepared! How's yours?
Indiana Jones: Then we'll die!
Kazim: My soul is prepared! How's yours?
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
— Nick Cave, "The Mercy Seat"
We trouble life by the care of death and death by the care of life. The one torments us, the other frightens us. It is not against death that we prepare, that is too momentary a thing. A quarter of an hour's suffering, without consequence, and without damage, does not deserve special precepts. To say the truth, we prepare ourselves against the preparations of death. Philosophy ordains us to always have death before our eyes, to see and consider it before the time, and then gives us rules and precautions to provide that this foresight and thought do us no harm. Just so do doctors who throw us into diseases in order to have whereon to employ their drugs and their art. If we have not known how to live, it is injustice to teach us how to die, and make the end difform from all the rest. If we have known how to live firmly and quietly, we shall know how to die too. They may boast as much as they please: Tota philosophorum vita, commentatio mortis est.note But I fancy that, though it be the end, it is not the aim of life; it is its end, its extremity, but nevertheless not its object. It ought itself to be its own aim and design; its true study is to order, govern, and suffer itself. Among several other offices that the general and principal chapter of knowing how to live comprehends, there is this article of knowing how to die, and one of the lightest too, did not our fears give it weight.
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays, book III chap. 12 "Of Physiognomy"
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
— Caesar, Julius Caesar
I do not fear death. DEATH FEARS ME!
— Shas'O Sa'cea Dre'koran Ta'ar, Warhammer 40,000
What is the terror of death?
That we die, our work incomplete.
What is the joy of life?
To die, knowing our task is done.
That we die, our work incomplete.
What is the joy of life?
To die, knowing our task is done.
And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it – you've got to go sometime.
— Gerry O'Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios janitor, Pink Floyd, "The Great Gig in The Sky", The Dark Side of the Moon
Catelyn Stark: I will kill you tonight, ser; pack your head in a box and send it to your sister!
Jamie Lannister: Let me show you how. Hit me again, over the ear. And again and again. You're stronger than you look. It shouldn't take long.
Catelyn Stark: That is what you want the world to believe, isn't it? That you don't fear death.
Jamie Lannister: But I don't, my lady. The dark is coming for all of us. Why cry about it?
Jamie Lannister: Let me show you how. Hit me again, over the ear. And again and again. You're stronger than you look. It shouldn't take long.
Catelyn Stark: That is what you want the world to believe, isn't it? That you don't fear death.
Jamie Lannister: But I don't, my lady. The dark is coming for all of us. Why cry about it?
— Game of Thrones, "Fire and Blood"
Xander: I know what you're thinkin'. Can I get by him? Get up the stairs, out of the building, seconds ticking away... I don't love your chances.
Jack: Then you'll die, too.
Xander: Yeah, looks like. So I guess the question really is: who has less fear?
Jack: I'm not afraid to die. I'm already dead.
Xander: Yeah, but this is different. Being blowed up isn't "walking around and drinking with your buddies" dead. It's "little bits being swept up by a janitor" dead, and I don't think you're ready for that.
Jack: Are you?
Xander: I like the quiet.
Jack: Then you'll die, too.
Xander: Yeah, looks like. So I guess the question really is: who has less fear?
Jack: I'm not afraid to die. I'm already dead.
Xander: Yeah, but this is different. Being blowed up isn't "walking around and drinking with your buddies" dead. It's "little bits being swept up by a janitor" dead, and I don't think you're ready for that.
Jack: Are you?
Xander: I like the quiet.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Zeppo"
Spartacus: All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.
Levantus: They both lose life.
Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
Levantus: They both lose life.
Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
Old!Nemo: I'm not afraid of dying... I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough! It should be written on every schoolroom blackboard: "Life is a playground – or nothing".
Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.
Bruce Wayne: Why?
Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?
Bruce Wayne: Why?
Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?
It means I'm the most dangerous bloody man on this island. I know what's waitin' for me when I kark it. I ain't afraid to die.
— The Sniper, Old Wounds comic, Team Fortress 2
"We've already had this discussion. If I don't stop the MCP, then who will? People like me, we created this universe. We have a responsibility to keep it safe. These Programs they need me! […] I know I'm in danger – it's war! I could die, or get derezzed, or whatever. I'm a big boy, I get that."
— Blue Jet.exe: Tron: Ghost in the Machine
Alucard: Do you have a god to put a last prayer to, Belmont?
Trevor: Yeah... Dear God, please don't let the vampire's guts ruin my good tunic.
Alucard: What? (grunts in pain as Trevor jabs a knife into his chest) I can still rip your throat out.
Trevor: You can. But it won't stop me staking you.
Alucard: But you will still die.
Trevor: But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was just a luxury.
Trevor: Yeah... Dear God, please don't let the vampire's guts ruin my good tunic.
Alucard: What? (grunts in pain as Trevor jabs a knife into his chest) I can still rip your throat out.
Trevor: You can. But it won't stop me staking you.
Alucard: But you will still die.
Trevor: But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was just a luxury.
— Castlevania (2017), "Monument"
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"
Director: I suggest you work with us if you expect to survive this.
Washington: I'm sorry, did something about my actions indicate that I expect to survive?
Freeza: I WILL F**KING MURDER YOU!
Nail: Whatever.
Nail: Whatever.
But, of course, her earliest memory was the death of her own Mother-Dog, and she lay with that other dead pup for a long time. Lick was born in the shadow of the Earth-Dog, after her Growl had faded away. Perhaps she isn't as frightened of death as she ought to be...
Was that a good or a bad thing? Lucky wasn't sure.
"Dying doesn't bother me. Not when I'm having this much fun."
— Junk Dog, Megalo Box
Build Driver: ARE YOU READY?!
Kazumi: Damn right I am.
Kazumi: Damn right I am.
— Kamen Rider Build, as Kazumi is about to transform with the Blizzard Knuckle, a device that will push his body so hard that it'll kill him.
Nick Fury: I'm not afraid of what comes next, cowboy. Nick Fury has been ready to reintegrate with the divine since he was eighteen years old, but would you do me a favor and focus your attack below the neckline? Identifying my corpse minus the eye is gonna be upsetting enough for my old, grey-haired momma.
"I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."
"Alright, everyone, let's hurry this up. I've got a date to keep with Roger... So let's make my final hours in this life as memorable as possible!"
"I don't care if I die, Ranboo. I don't care if I lose all my lives and I just– I'm just gone forever, but if my death can contribute to finally getting rid of Dream, then so be it. That is what I want."
At 12 o'clock I'll write a manifesto, it's a way to go,
And maybe they will find my bones, and maybe they will know
I'm not afraid to die, I'm not afraid to go away,
It's just the blinking of an eye, the culmination of today.
And maybe they will find my bones, and maybe they will know
I'm not afraid to die, I'm not afraid to go away,
It's just the blinking of an eye, the culmination of today.
— Fang performing "12 o'clock", Goodbye Volcano High
"I’m not going nowhere. What I do is important, and no plague is going to stop me from getting that done. City folk are all up in a tizzy over this and that, scared that ya’ll will pass without doing some crazy goals you set for yourself. But me, I’m not afraid of death. Suffering is just another part of life, and like labor, I can do it myself. To death, I say: I don’t need your damn help."
-Unnamed Farmer, Tragedy of Mercury: A History
— Harvester's Scythe shipping log, Risk of Rain 2
"Death can have me, when it earns me."
— Kratos, God of War Ragnarök
