Top 484 Death Quotes

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.

Donald Trump

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Polly Toynbee

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Taylor Caldwell

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Kevin Spacey

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Charles Jencks

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.

Marilyn Hacker

Thinking you're a genius is death.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

Rufus Wainwright

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

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