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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.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

Quotes by Martin McGuinness

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Quotes by Martin Gore

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Quotes by Martin Heidegger

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we...

Quotes by Martin Donovan

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Quotes by Martin Filler

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is...

Quotes by Martin Bormann

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

Quotes by Martha MacCallum

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Quotes by Martha Beck

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Quotes by Marlon James

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Quotes by Marquis de Lafayette

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

Grumbling is the death of love.

Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

Quotes by Mark Udall

What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they're actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And...

Quotes by Mark Roth

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize...

Quotes by Mark Parker

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

Quotes by Mark Margolis

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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.