Dead Quotes
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles -
In this moment my thoughts go to the many persons he made suffer -- some are still alive, some are dead.
Javier Solana
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
John Milton -
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan -
The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Why doesn’t he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?
Christina Stead -
But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes
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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!
Lord Byron -
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan Rickman -
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis -
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
Lewis Carroll -
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
Moliere -
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.
Josephine Angelini -
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
Socrates -
Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
Adam Silvera -
The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
No grief reaches the dead.
Sallust -
The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge
Catharine Arnold
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson -
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs -
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher