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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 think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Quotes by Wesley Schultz

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Quotes by Wendy Wasserstein

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Quotes by Wendell Pierce

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you...

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Quotes by Warren Zevon

I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

Quotes by Watkin Tudor Jones

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't...

Quotes by Warren G

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Quotes by Wangari Maathai

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Quotes by Ward Churchill

I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Quotes by Ward Churchill

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

Quotes by Walter Reisch

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I...

Quotes by Wael Ghonim

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

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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.