Dead Quotes
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Laurie Anderson -
It is only the dead who do not return.
Alexandre Dumas
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We were always dead against the war.
Bertie Ahern -
A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
David Wellington -
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 -
It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers -
Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
Thomas Aquinas -
Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.
Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko -
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures...
Harvey Pekar -
Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.
Mickey Rourke -
Trees are worth more alive than dead...
Prince -
If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
Sarah Dessen
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You know in America the general consensus is that rock is dead. Ever since the alternative thing came in. With rock, it's like they just don't want to know about it.
John Sykes -
Faith without works is dead.
Eric Reid -
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.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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.
Ezra Pound -
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.
Ethel Lynn Beers -
Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.
Homer
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
Esaias Tegner -
I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
Rod Stewart -
When physical genocide ran its course, cultural genocide followed, reflected in the “compassionate” counsel of Captain Richard Henry Pratt: “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.
Brian D. McLaren -
So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
Catherynne M. Valente