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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.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Quotes by Ric Keller

What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, 'Love till Death.' That represents me and my wife - 'til death do us part.

Quotes by Rey Mysterio

I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.

Quotes by Reza Aslan

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Quotes by Rex Hunt

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Quotes by Red Skelton

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes...

Quotes by Raymond Moody

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of...

Quotes by Raymond Moody

I'm not afraid of death at all.

Quotes by Raymond Moody

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Quotes by Raymond Carver

I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death...

Quotes by Ray William Johnson

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Quotes by Ray Winstone

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

Quotes by Ray Lewis

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Quotes by Ray Comfort

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

Quotes by Ramzan Kadyrov

Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my...

Quotes by Rana Daggubati

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Quotes by Ram Dass

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Quotes by Ram Dass

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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.