336 Movie Quotes about Death (Sound Clips) - page 23

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

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

221 Death... Death has become a middle-class business. There's no future in it.

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

222 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)

223 Can you stand there and watch people die?

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

224 Oh, don't imagine that you're going to die of it today or tomorrow. No, no, we can take our time.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

225 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)

226 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

227 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

228 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

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

Quote from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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

Quote from Clue (1985)