Top 484 Death Quotes

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.