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Unless you're one of the Tucks, you're gonna die. (Sorry.) Click on any death quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"
"All monsters are human."Source: American Horror Story: Asylum | Speaker: Sister Jude Martin
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty
"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."Source: Revelation 6:2-8 | Speaker: John The Revelator
"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"Source: A Smile to Remember | Author: Charles Bukowski
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."Source: The Fly | Speaker: Veronica Quaife
"Because I could not stop for death — He kindly stopped for me —"Source: Because I could not stop for Death | Author: Emily Dickinson
"Buongiorno, principessa!"Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido
"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."Source: Introduction to Poetry | Author: Billy Collins
"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."Source: The Palm Beach Story | Speaker: John D. Hackensacker III
"Come to me in the silence of the night."Source: Echo | Author: Christina Rossetti
"Come with me if you want to live."Source: The Terminator | Speaker: Kyle Reese
"Could be raining."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?"Source: Dirty Harry | Speaker: Harry Callahan
"Do you like scary movies?"Source: Scream | Speaker: Ghostface
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"Source: Battle of Bunker Hill | Speaker: William Prescott
"Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy."Source: The Outlaw Josey Wales | Speaker: Josey Wales
"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller
"Elizabeth, I'm coming!"Source: Sanford and Son | Speaker: Fred Sanford
"Face it, girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."Source: Fried Green Tomatoes | Speaker: Evelyn Couch
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."Source: Chinatown | Speaker: Lawrence Walsh
"Game over, man!"Source: Aliens | Speaker: Hudson
"Get busy living or get busy dying."Source: The Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"Source: Virginia Convention in Richmond on March 20, 1775 | Speaker: Patrick Henry
"God'll get you for that."Source: Maude | Speaker: Maude Findlay
"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times."Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Speaker: Albus Dumbledore
"Hasta la vista, baby."Source: Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Speaker: The Terminator
"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath
"Have fun storming the castle!"Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Miracle Max
"Have the lambs stopped screaming?"Source: The Silence of the Lambs | Speaker: Hannibal Lecter
"Have you checked the children?"Source: When a Stranger Calls | Speaker: Curt Duncan
"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"Source: Batman | Speaker: The Joker
"He chose poorly."Source: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Speaker: Grail Knight
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."Source: The Gospel of John | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Hello, Clarice."Source: The Silence of the Lambs | Speaker: Hannibal Lecter
"Here's Johnny!"Source: The Shining | Speaker: Jack Torrance
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I am not afraid; I was born to do this."Source: Spoken as she left the town of Vancouleurs | Speaker: Joan of Arc
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman
"I am your number one fan."Source: Misery | Speaker: Annie Wilkes
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."Source: The Silence of the Lambs | Speaker: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."Source: Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Red
"I heard a Fly buzz — when I died"Source: I heard a Fly buzz — when I died | Author: Emily Dickinson
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."Source: Moby-Dick | Author: Herman Melville
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."Source: Apocalypse Now | Speaker: Bill Kilgore
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Source: Spoken before his death | Speaker: Nathan Hale
"I see dead people."Source: The Sixth Sense | Speaker: Cole Sear
"I set fire to the rain."Source: "Set Fire to the Rain" | Speaker: Adele
"I shot the sheriff"Source: I Shot the Sheriff | Speaker: Bob Marley
"I vant to suck your blood!"Source: Dracula (Movie) | Speaker: Count Dracula
"I want to play a game."Source: Saw | Speaker: Jigsaw
"I'd consider myself a realist, alright?"Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy
"I'm ready for my close-up."Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond
"If they move, kill 'em."Source: The Wild Bunch | Speaker: Pike Bishop
"If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I betcha you would have done the same!"Source: "Cell Block Tango" | Speaker: Prison Girls
"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."Source: Furman v. Georgia | Author: Thurgood Marshall
"In space, no one can hear you scream."Source: Alien | Speaker: Tagline
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."Source: 1789 Letter | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred"Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade | Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It was a dark and stormy night."Source: Paul Clifford | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It was beauty killed the beast."Source: King Kong | Speaker: Carl Denham
"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It was the nearest thing to heaven."Source: An Affair to Remember | Speaker: Terry McKay
"It's a hell of a thing killing a man."Source: Unforgiven | Speaker: William Munny
"It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you."Source: Ghost | Speaker: Sam Wheat
"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright
"Just one more thing..."Source: Columbo | Speaker: Lieutenant Columbo
"Killing me softly…"Source: "Killing Me Softly With His Song" | Speaker: Roberta Flack
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza
"Let them eat cake!"Source: Marie Antoinette | Speaker: Marie Antoinette
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."Source: Shaun of the Dead | Speaker: Shaun
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Source: Auntie Mame | Speaker: Mame Dennis
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza
"Madness… madness."Source: The Bridge on the River Kwai | Speaker: Major Clipton
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Inigo Montoya
"No prisoners! No prisoners!"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"Source: Goldfinger | Speaker: Auric Goldfinger
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Source: 1965 TV Broadcast | Speaker: J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Oh my god, they killed Kenny!"Source: South Park | Speaker: Cast of South Park
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."Source: Speech to the 23rd Republican National Convention (June 1944) | Speaker: Herbert Hoover
"Once there was only dark."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"One, two, Freddy's coming for you..."Source: A Nightmare on Elm Street | Speaker: Creepy children
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."Source: Sympathy for the Devil | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas
"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."Source: Duck Soup | Speaker: Rufus T. Firefly
"Rosebud."Source: Citizen Kane | Speaker: Charles Foster Kane
"Round up the usual suspects."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Captain Renault
"Say hello to my little friend."Source: Scarface | Speaker: Tony Montana
"See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."Source: The Gospel of Matthew | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Shall we play a game?"Source: WarGames | Speaker: WOPR/Joshua
"Shane! Shane! Come back!"Source: Shane | Speaker: Little Joey
"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe…"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."Source: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Speaker: Senator Padmé Amidala
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Vito Corleone
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor
"That man lives badly who does not know how to die well."Source: On Tranquility of Mind | Author: Seneca
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."
"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The calla lilies are in bloom again."Source: Stage Door | Speaker: Terry Randall
"The dingo took my baby!"Source: A Cry in the Dark | Speaker: Lindy
"The hell with the rabbits. That's all you can ever remember is them rabbits."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."Source: Paradise Lost | Author: John Milton
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."Source: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Speaker: Spock
"The neighbors' dog will not stop barking."Source: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | Author: Billy Collins
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed."Source: "In My Life" | Speaker: The Beatles
"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston
"They're here."Source: Poltergeist | Speaker: Carol Anne Freeling
"They're like humans, but miniature. Teacup humans."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Eric Northman
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."Source: The Second Coming | Author: William Butler Yeats
"This is the city."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sergeant Joe Friday
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."Source: The Hollow Men | Author: T.S. Eliot
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"To the rolling of the bells- Of the bells, bells, bells"Source: The Bells | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"we are all trapped by a singular fate"Source: Alone with Everybody | Author: Charles Bukowski
"We are canceling the apocalypse!"Source: Pacific Rim | Speaker: Stacker Pentecost
"We belong dead."Source: Bride of Frankenstein | Speaker: The Monster
"What an excellent day for an exorcism."Source: The Exorcist | Speaker: Pazuzu-Regan
"What I do have is a particular set of skills."Source: Taken | Speaker: Bryan Mills
"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it."Source: Matthew 27:24 | Author: Matthew
"Who can it be now?"Source: "Who Can It Be Now?" | Speaker: Men at Work
"Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."Source: John 3:16 | Speaker: Jesus
"Would ya do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead."Source: Born Yesterday | Speaker: Billie Dawn
"You can't handle the truth!"Source: A Few Good Men | Speaker: Col. Nathan R. Jessup
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."Source: 1946 Letter | Author: Albert Einstein
"You come at the king, you best not miss."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little
"You lived your life like a candle in the wind."Source: "Candle in the Wind" | Speaker: Elton John
"You'll shoot your eye out."Source: A Christmas Story | Speaker: Ralphie's mom
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."Source: Jaws | Speaker: Brody
"Zoinks!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Shaggy