Tacitus Quotes

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dead
  • Now
  • Muslim

• In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Dead
  • Fault

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• We treated all of the dead with dignity.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Dead
  • Dignity
  • Treated

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Doubt
  • Dead

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Hair
  • Dead
  • Movement

• Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Grace

• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Power
  • Place

• The dead don't bother with particulars.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Dead
  • Particular
  • Bother

• It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.

  

  Alan Young
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Issue

• I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

  

  Allen Tate
  • Rock
  • Dark
  • Dead

• Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dead
  • Loss
  • Monster

• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Thought

• Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Dead
  • Given

• I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Live
  • Desire
  • See

• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Taken
  • Path
  • Chosen

• It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

  

  Tacitus
  • Dead
  • Grieve
  • Immoderately