Dead Quotes
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
Irwin Shaw
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
Henrik Ibsen
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
Amy Poehler
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
George Bernard Shaw
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
George Eliot
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If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course.
Oprah Winfrey
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Freddie will have been dead for 20 years in November. I was staggered because it doesn't seem possible that all that time has passed and I still miss him. He was my best friend, my best man. We shared so much and I owe so much to him.
Roger Taylor Queen
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It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.
Alan Young
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
Oscar Wilde
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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
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Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
Lady Gaga
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Nearly 1,000 dead -- I cannot remember a time when so many were killed in such a short space of time.
Hamadoun Toure
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I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?
Lily Allen
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Homer
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Colour can raise the dead.
Iris Apfel
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The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
Sean Covey