Dead Quotes
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles
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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.
Albert Einstein
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Eugene Ionesco
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He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
Albert Camus
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
Charlotte Bronte
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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Sigmund Freud
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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?
Alice Cary
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
Linda Ronstadt
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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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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
Liam Payne
One Direction
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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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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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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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I envy Jesus because he's dead.
T. C. Boyle
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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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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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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
