1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
Steven Morrissey

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
Jonathan Davis

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Andre Breton

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
Steven Seagal

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Anne Boleyn

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

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Ivan Illich

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Thomas Hardy

Inactivity is death.
Benito Mussolini

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau

Everybody is entertained to death.
Brian Eno

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
John Cleese

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.
Florence Nightingale

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?
Guru Nanak

The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran