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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.

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,'...

Quotes by Victoria Aveyard

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Quotes by Victoria de los Angeles

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will...

Quotes by Veronica Franco

When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what...

Quotes by Verite

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

Quotes by Vanessa Kerry

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Quotes by Vance Havner

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Quotes by Valerie Harper

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

Quotes by Valerie Harper

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Quotes by Valerie Harper

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.

Quotes by Uzodinma Iweala

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and...

Quotes by V. E. Schwab

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Quotes by Upamanyu Chatterjee

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

Quotes by Ueli Steck

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Quotes by Unknown

Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.

Quotes by Tyson Fury

Big-time college ball is a business, and they work you to death. You're in the gym at 7 A. M., got classes all morning, then five hours of practice a day.

Quotes by Tyrann Mathieu

I'm definitely not afraid of death. It's like I'm looking forward to it, really. I'm probably a little more afraid of living.

Quotes by Tyka Nelson

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Quotes by Tucker Carlson

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Quotes by Tupac Shakur

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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.