Dead Quotes
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Once you're dead, you're made for life.
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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
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How fares it with the happy 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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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.
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I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
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Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
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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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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.
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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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“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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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.
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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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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.
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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.
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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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Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
