Dead Quotes
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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
Lao Tzu
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
Marilyn Monroe
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I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
Will Christopher Baer
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This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.
Kiefer Sutherland
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
W. L. George
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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.
Alan Young
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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.
Catharine Arnold
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Steven Soderbergh
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The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
David Hackett Fischer
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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.
Dan Rice
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I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.
Clara Barton
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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
Allen Tate
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
Bela Lugosi
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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
Passenger
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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.
Eustace Conway
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
Edward Steichen
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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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.
Colin Thompson
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.
Alan Charles Korsun
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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell