Dead Quotes
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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.
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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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The spirit of Hitler is not dead.
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It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
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I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.
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Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.
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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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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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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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No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.
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I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
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If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
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The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
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If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
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Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow.
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
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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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Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
