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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.

We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.

Quotes by Ivan Moody

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Quotes by Ivan Illich

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Quotes by Isabelle Adjani

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Quotes by Isaiah Berlin

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Quotes by Isabel Allende

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

Quotes by Irma S. Rombauer

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Quotes by Indira Gandhi

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's...

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Quotes by Imran Khan

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what...

Quotes by Imelda Staunton

Blood and death. That moves me.

Quotes by Ikue Mori

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Quotes by Ignatius of Antioch

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale...

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

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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.