Dead Quotes
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No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life.
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.
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She swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead.
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Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.
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It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
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I have made up my mind to take 35 pills this time, and it will be "dead certain." If only he would let someone call.
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
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People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
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I am one of the crucified dead.
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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
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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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.
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It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.
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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
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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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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!
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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I believe the middle class game is dead.
