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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.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Quotes by Ernst Moritz Arndt

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Quotes by Ernest Renan

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

Quotes by Ernest Thompson Seton

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Quotes by Ernestine Rose

I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.

Quotes by Ernest Cline

I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a book about the Titanic if it hadn't already been done to death by James Cameron and Celine Dion.

Quotes by Erik Larson

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Quotes by Erica Jong

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Quotes by Erich Fromm

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Quotes by Erik Erikson

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

Quotes by Eric Roberts

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Quotes by Eric Sevareid

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Quotes by Eric Ladin

Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.

Quotes by Eric Greitens

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Quotes by Eric Holder

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death...

Quotes by Eric Cantona

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Quotes by Epictetus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Quotes by Epicurus

AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.

Quotes by Eric Bischoff

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Quotes by Enya

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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.