Dead Quotes
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust -
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.
Eva Braun
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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.
Andy Kershaw -
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
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.
Simon Schama -
Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
Ezra Pound -
If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
Mike Tyson
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
Sarah Vowell -
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
Bram Stoker -
Dead is the travel of all our travels.
Antoni Lange -
I couldn't work out what she actually wanted. Whether being dead happened in a pretty box on Welsh Street or someplace else, it didn't make a difference. Dead was irreversible. It was permanent. You couldn't do anything about it, and still, Tate seemed determined to take it back, like with the right answer, she could fix everything.
Brenna Yovanoff -
This is a veterans memorial. This is where Jackson honors its dead. This is the most meaningful place to be because we're honoring our dead.
Bob Lewis
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You! You are so lucky you're dead.
Kat Richardson -
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.
Archie Kalokerinos -
People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton -
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.
Edmund Vance Cooke -
You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.
Bill Murray -
Dead men have no victory.
Euripides
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In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.
Annabel Pitcher -
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
Alexandre Dumas -
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
Henry Ward Beecher -
I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe