Dead Quotes
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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Eugene Ionesco
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Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
Rachel Caine
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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?
Hutton Gibson
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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.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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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.
W. G. Sebald
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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...
George Bernard Shaw
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
Linda Ronstadt
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
Jack Kirby
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I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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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.
Brian Masters
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I envy Jesus because he's dead.
T. C. Boyle
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It boiled down to this: it’s a lot harder to love than to hate. Harder to be there for those you love – to see them get older, get sick, be taken from you in sudden awful ways. Hate’s dead simple. You can hate an utter stranger from a thousand miles away. It asks nothing of you. It eats you from the inside out but it takes no effort or thought at all.
Craig Davidson
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
Walt Disney
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Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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James A. Mullartey from our 1st Platoon made it back to our lines. His story: The NVA had been shooting our wounded. One came up to him, stuck a pistol in his mouth, and fired. The bullet exited the back of his throat, knocked him out and they left him for dead. He survived and when he woke up at night he started crawling to us
Hal Moore
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There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.
B. R. Hayden
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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.
John Maynard Keynes
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
Eugene Ionesco
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Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
Mike Tyson
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The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
Ben Bernanke