“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Clemenza · The Godfather, 1972
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Death Quotes
39 quotes on death, loss and mortality — from the classics to the everyday.
“When I die, just keep playing the records.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm not sure I will live to be 28 years old.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Once you are dead, you are made for life.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
Jimi Hendrix
“There's a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“We will keep the Cube from the Decepticons at all costs, or die trying.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“One shall stand, one shall fall.”
Optimus Prime · The Transformers: The Movie, 1986
“I lost a lot of people, that's why I move different.”
Rod Wave
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Bronte · Wuthering Heights, 1847
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1952
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis · A Grief Observed, 1961
