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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 don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

Quotes by James Salter

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

Quotes by James Meredith

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Quotes by James Larkin

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Quotes by James Hetfield

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Quotes by James F. Byrnes

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Quotes by James Fenton

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

I believe in the death penalty.

Quotes by James Dobson

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

Quotes by James Cromwell

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Quotes by James Cameron

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a...

Quotes by James Blunt

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal...

Quotes by James Blunt

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am...

Quotes by James Belushi

I remember, after filming that last scene in 'The Walking Dead,' I had nightmares for weeks about being eaten alive. With 'Blair Witch,' I had nightmares as well. But what's scarier about 'Blair Witch' is thinking about what might have...

Quotes by James Allen McCune

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Quotes by James Anthony Froude

The death of Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh shows that Saudi Arabia is paying for its betrayal of the Arab spring in Yemen in 2011.

Quotes by Jamal Khashoggi

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

Quotes by Jai Rodriguez

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Quotes by Jacques Lipchitz

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Quotes by Jacqueline Cochran

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Quotes by Jacqueline Cochran

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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.