Dead Quotes
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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
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Euripides
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And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead...
Robbie Williams
Take That
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.
Jennifer Donnelly
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I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived...
Karen Maitland
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I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
Emory Upton
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I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.
Galway Kinnell
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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.
Alan Paton
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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.
Barbara Stanwyck
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
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And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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I envy Jesus because he's dead.
T. C. Boyle
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You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
Lily King
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If you ask me if I’m imagining it again, I’m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.” Michael raised his eyebrows and glanced at Eve. “He doesn’t sound crazy.” “Er,” she clarified, “crazier. He sounds like he’s back to normal, which is baseline crazy.
Rachel Caine
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Steven Soderbergh
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God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
Sean Covey
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Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.
Rachel Caine
