Dead Quotes
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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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The only good Doe is a dead Doe
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There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
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In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
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Dead men have no victory.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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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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I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
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I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.
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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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Trees are worth more alive than 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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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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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.
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Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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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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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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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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No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.
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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.
