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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.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Quotes by Jacob K. Javits

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done,...

Quotes by Jackie Stewart

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Quotes by Jackie Kennedy

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.

Quotes by Jack Schlossberg

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Quotes by Jack Kerouac

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Quotes by Jack Chick

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

Quotes by Jack Black

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

Death is just life's next big adventure.

J.K. Rowling

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

Quotes by J. M. Coetzee

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

Quotes by J. J. Abrams

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Quotes by J. B. Priestley

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security....

Quotes by J. C. Ryle

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Quotes by J. D. Hayworth

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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.