Dead Quotes
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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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.
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I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.
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Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.
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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.
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Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
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Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
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Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.
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We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than 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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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
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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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The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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I believe the middle class game is dead.
