Dead Quotes
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Then they did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time and because I lay still and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Master Rich took pains to rack me with their own hands till I was nigh dead.
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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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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 thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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Why doesn’t he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?
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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 reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
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Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.
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Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
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If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.
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One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.
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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
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Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.
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No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
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I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
