Dead Quotes
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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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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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“Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”
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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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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
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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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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
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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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What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.
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These be Three silent things: The falling snow...the hour Before the dawn...the mouth of one Just dead.
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Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
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Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.
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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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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
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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.
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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
