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Death Quotes

Death shows up in conversation more than we admit.

These quotes treat death as a subject that surfaces everywhere - casual bar conversation about life's biggest questions, a wry comparison between an unfulfilling job and a kind of professional death, and culture as the space where death, love, and birth all get processed together. See Death And Taxes Quotes for more.

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.

Quotes by Sander Levin

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

Quotes by Samuel Fuller

Birth was the death of him.

Quotes by Samuel Beckett

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Quotes by Samuel Foote

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

Quotes by Samantha Bond

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

Quotes by Samantha Fox

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets...

Quotes by Samantha Shannon

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

Quotes by Samantha Shannon

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Quotes by Sam Sheppard

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Quotes by Sam Snead

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

Quotes by Sam Levenson

The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.

Quotes by Salva Kiir Mayardit

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

Quotes by Sally Mann

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death...

Quotes by Sally Mann

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Quotes by Saint Bernard

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Frequently Asked Questions

What different ways do these quotes talk about death?
They range from casual bar conversations about life's great problems, to a metaphor about a 'death knell' for a musician's ambitions, to a joking reference to shaking oneself to death, to death listed among the big themes culture helps us process.
Is there a quote about talking about death casually?
Yes. One quote describes people meeting in bars and talking about "the great problems of life and death and the world and politics" without taking themselves too seriously. For more on serious topics like this, see Death Penalty quotes.
Is there a quote using 'death knell' as a metaphor?
Yes - one speaker says "the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever," using death metaphorically to describe creative stagnation. Browse Death And Taxes quotes for more on inevitabilities.
Is there a quote joking about wanting to disappear?
Yes. One speaker jokes about wanting to "jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death" on tougher days, contrasted with wanting to be seen as a respectable grown-up on others. For more, see Deaths quotes.
Is there a quote about death as one of life's core themes in culture?
Yes - one quote says culture is "the intersection of people and life itself," and that it's how we deal with "life, love, death, birth, disappointment." For more, see Deadliest quotes.

One line even finds dark humor in the exhaustion of trying to look respectable every day. Explore further in Deadliest Quotes or Deaths Quotes.