Dead Quotes
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
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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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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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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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A good angel is only a dead angel.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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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.
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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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Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.
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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
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The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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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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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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Why do we think only the dead haunt us, for the living are just as good at it?
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Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
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I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms; And feel companion of the dead I'm living in the tombs.
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
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Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.
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I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
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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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
