274 Movie Quotes about Dead People (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 As there are many people of delicate sensibilities, with a natural reluctance to expose their loved ones to anything savoring of immodesty, I've been considering the advantages of training a female embalmer.

Jonathan Winters as Harry and Wilbur Glenworthy in The Loved One (1965)

42 There's got to be a way to get those stiffs off my property.

Jonathan Winters as Harry and Wilbur Glenworthy in The Loved One (1965)

43 Earth to earth... Ashes to ashes... Dust to dust... Air to air.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

44 I don't mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little enough of it while he was alive.

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

45 So, what does your husband do? -Nothing. -Nothing? -Well, he just lies around on his back all day. -Sounds like hard work to me.

Quote from Clue (1985)

46 Do you miss him? -Well, it's a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.

Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White in Clue (1985)

47 No. No, he's dead. -Mr. Boddy. Dead again! -Oh my God!

Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue (1985)

48 Don't be afraid. Dead can't hurt you. -No, but they'll make you hurt yourself.

Quote from Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

49 My wife does not answer your greeting because she is dead. -Dead? -Approach her and satisfy yourself.

John Carradine as Dr. Von Altermann in Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

50 You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men hadn't all eternity.

Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)