Death Quotes

Nobody gets out of here alive, and these quotes do not pretend otherwise. What they offer instead is honesty — about grief, legacy, fear, acceptance, and the strange way that thinking about death can make you more serious about living.

“Marriage is the death of hope.”

Woody Allen

More Death Quotes

“She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.”

Helena Bonham Carter

“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.”

E. W. Howe

“I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.”

Annie Lennox

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

Lord Byron

“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”

Carter Burwell

“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”

Jean Paul

“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”

Herodotus

“Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”

Carter Burwell

“I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.”

Carl Lewis

“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”

George Carlin

“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”

David Herbert Lawrence

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”

Barry Goldwater

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