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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.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Quotes by Florence Nightingale

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Quotes by Florence Welch

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

Quotes by Florentijn Hofman

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Quotes by Florynce Kennedy

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Quotes by Fidel Castro

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

Quotes by Fidel Edwards

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had...

Quotes by Finn Wittrock

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

Quotes by Finn Wolfhard

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

Quotes by Finn Wolfhard

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Quotes by Fiona Shaw

You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

Quotes by Felix Dennis

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

Quotes by Felix Rohatyn

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

Quotes by Federica Mogherini

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

Quotes by Farnaz Fassihi

When you go through the death of somebody who you care about, and taking on moving, bills, and a daughter, it makes you feel older. You learn a lot about life.

Quotes by Farrah Abraham

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

Quotes by Fairuza Balk

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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.