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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 thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their...

Quotes by Winifred Holtby

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Quotes by Willie Aames

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Quotes by William Wycherley

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Quotes by William Styron

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Quotes by William Shatner

Death is an absolute marvel.

Quotes by William Shatner

My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada...

Quotes by William Sanderson

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Quotes by William Penn

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Quotes by William Law

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

Quotes by William Kidd

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for...

Quotes by William Jay

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Quotes by William Hull

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Quotes by William Inge

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

Quotes by William J. Brennan, Jr.

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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.