Dead Quotes
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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.
Ethel Lynn Beers
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
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That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
Eugene Ormandy
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
Elizabeth Scott
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The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
Dante Alighieri
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If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
Mike Tyson
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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.
Wilfred Trotter
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I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.
Johnny Depp
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Will Durant
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I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Guess that's a part of what the living did, they took care of their dead.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
Grace Slick
Starship
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
Cesare Pavese
