Dead Quotes
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Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.
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There is no business to be done on a dead planet.
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I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
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There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.
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Fidel Castro is dead!
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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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.
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
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The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
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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.
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!
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Those who live in memories are never really dead.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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The small objects belonging to the dead became part of the household. I did not feel that it was theft as their owners hadn’t really gone away.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
