Dead Quotes
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Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, you'll be under his spell. His characters are living, breathing people you'll care about; his setting is a place you'll visit and stay-long after you've decided to leave because you're scared. You can't leave; you're trapped. There are too many nerve-jangling, beautifully written, razor sharp moments and you won't want to miss a single one. This is an absolute sizzler.
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Rather be dead then cool.
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It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
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Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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In this pre-Lukan tradition, Jesus was made the Son of God at the resurrection. This is a view Luke inherited from his tradition, and it is one that coincides closely with what we already saw in Romans 1:3–4. It appears to be the earliest form of Christian belief: that God exalted Jesus to be his Son by raising him from the dead.
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He who does not move with the times is a dead man...
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In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
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Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
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I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.
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Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
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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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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.
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I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.
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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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He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
