Dead Quotes
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead
William Collins
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Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
Archpoet
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
Sarah Monette
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The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.
Algis Budrys
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.
Clarence Day
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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Slowly, Gobber stood up. Carefully, he removed his helmet from his head, and placed it very gently on the chest of the dead Goliath.
Cressida Cowell
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Maybe Justin, my students, spoiled me for people my own age, usually so boring, talking about their endless health problems, pros/cons of being cremated, not realizing they're already dead in the most tragic way.
Alma Luz Villanueva
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If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.
Andy Kershaw