Dead Quotes
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
Esaias Tegner
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I need some air. I`m still feeling a tad... dead.
Elijah
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now—over and over again they said the same things, and nothing new was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead. Nothing further was to be expected of them; while of the living, what might one not still expect?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.
Gavin Douglas
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
Evan Dando
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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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Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.
Ernest Borgnine
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I'm a live wire in a dead world.
Eyedea
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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
William Faulkner
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I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
Conn Iggulden
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Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
Ajahn Chah
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Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
Cate Tiernan
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Sorry, but looks like I'm dead.
Eiichiro Oda
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Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.
Muhammad Ali
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She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Marcel Proust
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Faith without works is dead.
Eric Reid
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
John Milton
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The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
Siegfried Sassoon
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In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
Eileen Simpson
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A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
Nixon Waterman
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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