Dead Quotes
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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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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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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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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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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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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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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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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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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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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was 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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The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
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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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Those who live in memories are never really dead.
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There is no business to be done on a dead planet.
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Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?
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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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Fidel Castro is dead!
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.