Humanoid death rituals are an interest of mine; everybody needs a hobby. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e12: The Alternate, Odo
You can’t die! You are the emissary! Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e7: Starship Down, Kira
Today is a good day to die. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e14: In Purgatory’s Shadow, Worf v Jem’Hadar
I have devoted my life to the study of death. And do you know what I have found? Death is nothing more than the result of cellular boredom. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e25: In the Cards, Dr Giger
It’s a strange sensation – dying. No matter how many times it happens to you, you never get used to it. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e3: Afterimage, Dax
The one thing I want more than any other is to die. Star Trek: Voyager s2e18: Death Wish, Q
Isn’t it clear? You’re dead. You died in that shuttle crash. Star Trek: Voyager s3e15, Coda, Janeway’s dad
Chakotay: How’s Neelix?
Tom: He’s dead. Star Trek: Voyager s4e12: Mortal Coil
Neelix is dead? ... We are capable of reactivating drones up to seventy-two hours after what you would call dead. ibid. Seven of Nine to Janeway et al
Neelix, you’ve just returned from the dead. Go easy on yourself. ibid. Janeway
Human attitudes towards death are perplexing. Too much importance is placed on it. There seem to be countless rituals and cultural beliefs designed to alleviate their fear of a simple biological truth: all organisms eventually perish. ibid. Seven of Nine
Tuvok: I take it the Borg have no fear of that biological truth?
Seven of Nine: None. When a drone is damaged beyond repair it is discarded. But if memories continue to exist in the collective consciousness – to use a human term – the Borg are immortal.
Tuvok: You are no longer part of the collective. You are mortal now like the rest of us. Does that disturb you?
Seven of Nine: My connection to the Bog has been severed. But the Collective still possesses my recollections, my experiences. In a sense I will always exist.
Tuvok: Fascinating. That must be a great relief.
Seven of Nine: Yes. It is. ibid.
Nothing. I die. And there was nothing. There was no-one there. ibid. Neelix to Chakotay
It’s just a story. A myth. There is no guiding tree. No gathering of your ancestors. I was there. I experienced it. There was nothing. ibid.
There are things here worse than death. Star Trek: Voyager s6e3: Barge of the Dead, Chakotay
I’m dying, Reginald. And there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Star Trek: Voyager s6e24: Life Line, old Doctor Zimmerman to Barclay
If there is one constant in this whole universe, it’s death. Star Trek VII: Generations 1994 starring William Shatner & Patrick Stewart & Jonathan Frakes & Brent Spiner & LeVar Burton & Michael Dorn & Gates McFadden & Marina Sirtis et al, director David Carson, Soran
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. Donald Rumsfeld
Well, George, I strongly suspect that your long wait for certain death is nearly at an end. Blackadder Goes Forth: Plan F – Goodbyeee, BBC 1989
Gentlemen, our long wait is nearly at an end. Tomorrow morning General Insanity Melchett invites you to a mass slaughter – we’re going over the top. ibid. Blackadder to Baldrick & George
The dead are lucky. It’s all over for them. Erwin Rommel
What did he die for? The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 starring Alec Guinness & William Holden & Jack Hawkins & Ann Sears & Sessue Hayakawa & James Donald & Geoffrey Horne & Heihachiro Okawa & Keiichiro Katsumoto et al, director David Lean, Holden at graveside
Death would enter the experience of the American people and the body politic of the American nation as it never had before. Ric Burns, Death and the Civil War, PBS 2013
That’s why there’s such a fervent Pro-Life movement in this country. Everything else is dead or dying. Even the grass is fake. The East 2013 starring Ellen Page & Brit Marling & Alexander Skarsgard & Toby Kebbell & Shiloh Fernandez & Julia Ormond & Patricia Clarkson et al, director Zal Batmanglij, anarchist bird
Lives lived in consistent danger. Adam Nicholson, The Century that Wrote Itself II: The Rewritten Universe, BBC 2013
Death was more present in seventeenth century England than anywhere on Earth today. ibid.
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. Ava Gardner
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
I feel most alive confronting death, experiencing pain. The Doors 1991 starring Val Kilmer & Meg Ryan & Kyle MacLachlan & Frank Whaley & Kevin Dillon & Kathleen Quinlan & Floyd Red Crow Westerman & Billy Idol & Josh Evans & Michael Wincott & Michael Madsen & Jerry Sturm et al, director Oliver Stone, Jim to Pamela
Death – it’s not so bad. ibid. Jim
Today is a good day to die. Flatliners 1990 starring Keifer Sutherland & Julia Roberts & William Baldwin & Oliver Plant & Kevin Bacon & Kimberley Scott & Joshua Rudoy & Benjamin Mouton & Hope Davis & Patricia Belcher & Beth Grant et al, director Joel Schumacher, Nelson
Patient: I want to die with a little dignity.
Dr House: There’s no such thing. Our bodies break down. Sometimes when we’re ninety. Sometimes before we’re even born. But it always happens. And there’s never any dignity in it. I don’t care if you can walk, see or wipe your own arse. It’s always ugly. Always. House, Fox 2004
Death alone reveals how small are men’s poor bodies. Juvenal, A.D. 60-c.130, Satires no. 10
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave bereft
I am not there. I have not left. Mary Elizabeth Frye
I saw the face of death. The Borgias s3e1: The Face of Death, Rodrigo, Showtime 2013
To die is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day. Napoleon Bonaparte
Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow. Seneca
John le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends. John Le Mesurier, obituary cited The Times 16th November 1983
Knight: Who are You?
Pale Man in Black: I am Death. The Seventh Seal 1957 starring Max von Sydow & Bengt Ekerot & Gunnar Bjornstrand & Nils Poppe & Bibi Andersson & Ake Fridell & Inga Gill & Erik Strandmark & Bertil Anderberg et al, director Ingmar Bergman
Why play chess with me? ibid. Death
Now I live in a ghost world, enclosed in my dreams and imaginings. ibid. Knight’s confession
Why does He hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? (Death & God) ibid.