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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.

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

Quotes by Naveen Patnaik

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

Quotes by Nathaniel Smith

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

Quotes by Nate Dogg

I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

Quotes by Natascha McElhone

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

Quotes by Natascha McElhone

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Quotes by Nastassja Kinski

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Quotes by Nat King Cole

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Quotes by Naomi Watts

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Quotes by Nancy Reagan

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting...

Quotes by Nancy Grace

Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).

Quotes by N. Bhaskara Rao

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks...

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

Quotes by Myron Scholes

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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.