Dead Quotes
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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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
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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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To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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She swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead.
Bernice L. McFadden
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Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
Kat Richardson
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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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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
Angela Thirkell
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The dead never go to their own funeral.
Carlo D'Este
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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
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
Bram Stoker
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
Solon
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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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I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
Elizabeth Goudge
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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.
Red Skelton
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Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
Moliere
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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
Friedrich Nietzsche