Dead Quotes
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It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.
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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.
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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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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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I'm a live wire in a dead world.
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I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
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I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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.
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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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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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If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.
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You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
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Faith without works is dead.
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Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
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If yuh don't know God yuh going suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
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Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
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I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
