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* The Music/FlamingLips song "Do You Realize" contains the line, "Do you realize....that everyone you know someday will die."

* The Flaming Lips song "Do You Realize" contains the line, "Do you realize....that everyone you know someday will die."

* HarryPotter's ability to acknowledge this is what often gives him the advantage in his confrontations against Voldemort.

* PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-08-28/ this]] ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip.

* Wynne, the elderly Enchanter in ''DragonAge: Origins'' (and the oldest member of your Player Party, except the golem Shale), is very acutely aware of her own mortality... and embraces it. It doesn't mean that she will just drop dead on you anytime soon, however. It is much later revealed that she is practically LivingOnBorrowedTime, having already effectively died long ago but kept alive via a benevolent case of DemonicPossession.
* Acknowledged in GrimFandango.

* "Memento Mori" (remember you will die) is the ArcWords of ''{{Persona 3}}''. [[spoiler:Appropriate, given the game ends with the protagonist's death.]]

See also WeAreAsMayflies, DontFearTheReaper, NotAfraidToDie and LifeWillKillYou. Compare WhoWantsToLiveForever. Do not confuse with KillEmAll.

* From GameOfThrones:
-->'''[[BadassSpaniard Syrio Forel]]''': [[CatchPhrase What do we say]] [[YouShallNotPass to the God of Death?]]

-->'''Hot Rod:''' Not today, Galavatron! (Punches Galvatron)

* John Maynard Keynes, "In the long run we're all dead."

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* In ''{{Discworld}}''', it's pretty repeatedly states that eventually, Death will meet everyone. Particularly, this exchange between Vimes and Lu Tze in ''Discworld/NightWatch''. Leads to a NoSympathy moment from the sweeper.

-->'''Ponder:''' Graveyards are full of people who rushed in bravely but unwisely.

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* Used twice in ''Series/DoctorWho'', both subverted with the "not today" response.

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* Music/{{Avenged Sevenfold}}'s song "A Little Piece of Heaven" has the recurring line "Cause everybody's gotta die sometime."
* {{Lana Del Rey}}'s single Born To Die (and the whole damn album of the same name, too) is based around this trope. [[CaptainObvious Makes sense if you think about it...]]

* In an episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' a historian from the 26th century comes to watch what happens during a crisis on the Enterprise back in the 24th. Picard wants him to tell him what the future says happened, but he's reluctant.

* Lister in ''RedDwarf''

-->'''[[BadassSpaniard Syrio Forel]]''': [[YouShallNotPass What do we say to the God of Death?]]

* In ''{{Discworld}}'''s Night Watch, the exchange between Vimes and Lu Tze in ''Night Watch''. Leads to a NoSympathy moment from the sweeper.

'''Lu Tze''': Of course. Everyone you talk you is going to die. Everyone I talk to is going to die. Everybody dies.
** Another exchange goes something along the lines of "There are graveyards full of people who rushed in unprepared." "Sooner or later, the graveyards are filled with ''everybody''."

* Used twice in ''Series/DoctorWho'', both subverted with the "not today" response.

See also WeAreAsMayflies, EverybodyLives and LifeWillKillYou. Compare WhoWantsToLiveForever. Do not confuse with KillEmAll.

* In Herodotus' [[{{Herodotus}} Histories]] of the Persian War, Xerxes looks over his army and comments that in a hundred years, every single man there will be dead. OlderThanFeudalism.

A StockPhrase that acknowledges our own mortality. Good guys, bad guys and everybody [[AntiHero in]] [[AntiVillain between]] will one day have to recognise that none of us will live forever. Even [[{{Immortality}} those who do]] may have [[WhoWantsToLiveForever pangs of regret]] because of this trope. If villains say this line, it could be their reason for their disregard of life in general. If it's a hero, except them to be the more cynical, disillusioned type. Depending on where we fall on the [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism sliding scale]], we may get a "but not today" rebuttal.

* In Herodotus' [[{{Herodotus}} Histories]] of the Persian War, Xerxes looks over his army and comments that in a hundred years, every single man there will be dead. OlderThanDirt.

* From ''SchlockMercenary'':