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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.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

Quotes by Howard Coble

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Quotes by Horatio Nelson

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Quotes by Hortense Odlum

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Quotes by Horace

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law,...

Quotes by Horace

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Quotes by Horace

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Quotes by Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Quotes by Horace Mann

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

Quotes by Holly Black

I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.

Quotes by Hirokazu Kore-eda

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

Quotes by Hideki Tojo

If you had a game that said, 'Oops, you're dead. Now switch off the game,' it wouldn't be very successful. So you do need to have something to teach and be there to learn from, and we feel that death...

Quotes by Hidetaka Miyazaki

Demons, chaos, dragons - all of them are different incarnations and representations of our idea of death in 'Dark Souls.'

Quotes by Hidetaka Miyazaki

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.

Quotes by Hidetaka Miyazaki

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Quotes by Herodotus

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Quotes by Herta Muller

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Quotes by Hesiod

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could...

Quotes by Herbie Mann

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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.