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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.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Quotes by Peter Andre

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

Quotes by Pete Hegseth

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death;...

Quotes by Pete Hegseth

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

Quotes by Perianne Boring

After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers...

Quotes by Perianne Boring

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.

Quotes by Penny Junor

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction...

Quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?

Quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

Quotes by Pauly Shore

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Quotes by Paula Poundstone

There is creative power in your mouth right now. God spoke and created the universe; you have creative power to speak life and death! If you believe God, you can create anything in your life.

Quotes by Paula White

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Quotes by Paula Cole

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think...

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

One of the things that struck me when I was a kid and I was learning about Pompeii was these figures that were frozen in the moments of their death. It is very powerful imagery, and it is very emotional...

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

I love 'Death Race.' It's one of my favorite films.

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released 'Death Race,' and the reason was that I spent two years prepping Death Race and building all these custom rigs to shoot cars in the most dynamic and exciting way.

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

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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.