274 Movie Quotes about Dead People (+ Sound Clips) - page 25

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about dead people, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

241 It's Old Nick himself. We must be dead and we don't know it.

Quote from The Snow Goose (1954)

242 Who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord 1943 for the greater glory of... What did he die for?

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

243 Well, he couldn't have been dead. -He was. At least, I thought he was. What difference does it make now? -Makes quite a difference to him.

Quote from Clue (1985)

244 She's not breathing. -But look, she's smiling now. She wasn't before.

Quote from Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

245 Quite right. In cataleptic trance, a man may live for days with no visible sign of life. The breath suspended, the heartbeat stilled. But this man is dead.

Ernst Deutsch as Dr. Drossos in Isle of the Dead (1945)

246 Good day for the crows.

Quote from Troy

247 Where's my uncle? -You'll never see him again. Your uncle's a dead man.

Quote from Kung Fu Of 8 Drunkards

248 That's the way all these guys end up. A corpse in the alley.

Quote from The Naked Street (1955)

249 Oh! Did I tell you about her husband? -Well, you told me he was dead. -No, no, I mean about the way he died.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

250 Wasn't my mum a Betty? She died when I was just a baby, a fluke accident during a routine liposuction. I don't remember her, but I like to pretend she still watches over me.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)