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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.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Quotes by Elias Hicks

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

Quotes by Elena Anaya

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Quotes by Eli Broad

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

Quotes by Elayne Boosler

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Elbert Hubbard

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy...

Quotes by Eleanor Clift

Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.

Quotes by Eiza Gonzalez

I believe in life after death.

Quotes by Ekta Kapoor

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due...

Quotes by Elaine Chao

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.

Quotes by Ehud Barak

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Quotes by Edwin Arnold

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

Quotes by Edwin M. Stanton

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action....

Quotes by Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Quotes by Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Quotes by Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Quotes by Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Quotes by Edward Young

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving...

Quotes by Edward Hirsch

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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.