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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.

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Quotes by Yasser Arafat

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Quotes by Yayoi Kusama

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

Quotes by Yasmin Aga Khan

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.

Quotes by Yance Ford

When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.

Quotes by Yance Ford

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Quotes by Yann Martel

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener...

Quotes by Xenophon

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such...

Quotes by Xun Kuang

My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.

Quotes by Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Quotes by Wolfgang Tillmans

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Quotes by Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Quotes by Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Quotes by Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Quotes by Woody Allen

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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.