Top death Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of death quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Patricia Cornwell
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
- Patricia Cornwell
Collection: Death
Image of Simon Schama
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
- Simon Schama
Collection: Death
Image of Guillermo del Toro
I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.
- Guillermo del Toro
Collection: Death
Image of George Edward Woodberry
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
- George Edward Woodberry
Collection: Death
Image of Orlando Gibbons
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
- Orlando Gibbons
Collection: Death
Image of Jan Mark
When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
- Jan Mark
Collection: Death
Image of Dave Barry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Death
Image of Jim Harrison
I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
- Jim Harrison
Collection: Death
Image of Tessa Thompson
Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.
- Tessa Thompson
Collection: Death
Image of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Collection: Death
Image of Ida B. Wells
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
- Ida B. Wells
Collection: Death
Image of Georg Buchner
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
- Georg Buchner
Collection: Death
Image of Edith Piaf
Death is the beginning of something.
- Edith Piaf
Collection: Death
Image of Johann Johannsson
Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.
- Johann Johannsson
Collection: Death
Image of Antonin Scalia
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Death
Image of Golshifteh Farahani
Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
- Golshifteh Farahani
Collection: Death
Image of Reid Hoffman
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.
- Reid Hoffman
Collection: Death
Image of Ingmar Bergman
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
- Ingmar Bergman
Collection: Death
Image of Al Green
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
- Al Green
Collection: Death
Image of Henry David Thoreau
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Death
Image of Martin Scorsese
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
- Martin Scorsese
Collection: Death
Image of Josh McDowell
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
- Josh McDowell
Collection: Death
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Death
Image of Frank Dobson
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
- Frank Dobson
Collection: Death
Image of Roddy Piper
Guys like Ole Anderson, Gene Anderson, Mad Dog Vachon, Johnny Valentine. I love them to death. I'll love them forever.
- Roddy Piper
Collection: Death
Image of Barbara Corcoran
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
- Barbara Corcoran
Collection: Death
Image of Paulo Coelho
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Death
Image of Bennet Omalu
When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
- Bennet Omalu
Collection: Death
Image of Conway Twitty
Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
- Conway Twitty
Collection: Death
Image of James Weldon Johnson
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
- James Weldon Johnson
Collection: Death
Image of Nikki Reed
My boyfriend, who I love to death - he's only 17 so he's the youngest guy I've ever dated - he just moved here from Hawaii to be with me and I met him when I was 10. Anyway, in Hawaii they have such a different mentality and different priorities.
- Nikki Reed
Collection: Death
Image of Anthony Ray Hinton
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
- Anthony Ray Hinton
Collection: Death
Image of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Collection: Death
Image of Louis XIV
The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.
- Louis XIV
Collection: Death
Image of Mads Mikkelsen
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
- Mads Mikkelsen
Collection: Death
Image of Mary Renault
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
- Mary Renault
Collection: Death
Image of Patsy Kensit
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
- Patsy Kensit
Collection: Death
Image of Rob Thomas
I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.
- Rob Thomas
Collection: Death
Image of Michael Chiesa
If you're gonna get punched in the face, elbowed, cut up, busted up, injured, have to cut weight, have to bring yourself to the brink of death to show up the next day and try to put on the performance of your life, you've gotta love it. And if I don't love it, it's just not worth it to me.
- Michael Chiesa
Collection: Death
Image of Montgomery Clift
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
- Montgomery Clift
Collection: Death
Image of Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Death
Image of George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- George Eliot
Collection: Death
Image of Miguel de Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Collection: Death
Image of Robert Bolt
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
- Robert Bolt
Collection: Death
Image of Bryan Procter
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
- Bryan Procter
Collection: Death
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Death
Image of Arlo Guthrie
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
- Arlo Guthrie
Collection: Death
Image of David Sarnoff
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff
Collection: Death
Image of Daniel Barenboim
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
- Daniel Barenboim
Collection: Death
Image of Virgil
To have died once is enough.
- Virgil
Collection: Death