Dead Quotes
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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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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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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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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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
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To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.
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When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country--and the time will come--then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.
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Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
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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.
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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
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His place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning .
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Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
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Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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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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I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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.
