360 Movie Quotes about Death (+ Sound Clips) - page 22

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

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

211 So the moral of the story is better Red Riding Hood than Dead Riding Hood. You read me?

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

212 Can you stand there and watch people die?

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

213 He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt in The Third Man (1949)

214 My being here... maybe that's news, but dying is my own business. Keep it under your hat, will you?

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

215 When my time comes to die, I won't drag it out. I'll just do it. Why the hell don't you?

Harry Morgan as Marshal Thibido in The Shootist

216 A man's death is about the most private thing in his life. It doesn't belong to Dobkins or Reverend Saunders, or Thibido or you. It's mine.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

217 As you know, the loss of heat from the brain is the most reliable way of determining time of death. Right, Chief? -Oh, yeah.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

218 Well, what are you afraid of? A fate worse than death? -No. Just death. Isn't that enough?

Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock; Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum in Clue (1985)

219 He sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bosom.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

220 So always look on the bright side of death just before you draw your terminal breath.

Eric Idle in Monty Python's Life of Brian