Dead Quotes
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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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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
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Ask not if poetry is dead, ask how you can live for poetry.
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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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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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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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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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What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
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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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Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
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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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The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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Sorry, but looks like I'm dead.
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One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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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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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
