Dead Quotes
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Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
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Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
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It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.
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More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.
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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight.
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I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing.
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
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I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.
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Children were the primary victims of these filthy conditions and there were numerous anecdotes of undertakers temporarily storing the bodies of newborn infants in their own premises until there were enough dead babies to make it worthwhile giving them a decent burial.
