Quotes & Sayings About Marilyn Monroe Death

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. — Marilyn Monroe

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured. — Diana Trilling

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life. — Marilyn Monroe

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. — Karin Slaughter