Tragic Death Quotes

…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.

Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

It's very heart wrenching for me to say rest in peace Irrfan.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

Junior Seau's CTE finding raises a lot of issues for everyone. He is such a beacon. He was so young when he died. He was an active player for so long. He was such an amazing individual who was well loved by his teammates and his community.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

If you want to become a myth, you had better die young.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

If I ever die, I want it to be cause I got hit by a car saving a kid.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.