Dead Quotes
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In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
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Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.
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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.
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It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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Trees are worth more alive than dead...
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Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow.
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The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as 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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There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
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No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.
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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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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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If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
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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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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.
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Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.
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The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
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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.
