Dead Quotes
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Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.
Lord Robertson
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When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
Conn Iggulden
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson
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Why doesn’t he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?
Christina Stead
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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
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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.
Eva Braun
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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!
Charles Dickens
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
Elizabeth Goudge
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
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Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
Socrates
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
Bram Stoker
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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.
Archie Kalokerinos
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Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.
Nicholas Sparks
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
Kat Richardson
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'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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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
Catharine Arnold
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The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.
Algis Budrys
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Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
Cass McCombs
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Once you're dead, you're made for life.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.
Wilbur Moorehead Smith
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
Barbara Wood
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We were always dead against the war.
Bertie Ahern