Dead Quotes

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

How quickly the dead faded into each other,

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend th...

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserab...

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dea...

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

There is no spoon.

The dead pull the living down.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki...

The dead pull the living down.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki...

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might...

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...

(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of th...

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningf...

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempes...

Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same s...

Rather be dead than cool.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied.

Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He...

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Perse...

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause the...

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous tha...

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this ...

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.Even when the trial i...

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm no...

God is not a dead equation!

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but th...

We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar ...

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,...

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of peopl...

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangin...

He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was ...

Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, ...

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. S...

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ...

There was something dead in my heart.I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell....

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing o...

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such...

A man without trust might as well be dead.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the...

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial,...

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to...

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such ...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, A...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his respon...

Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“ She had shaken her h...

Sometimes dead is better

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin ...

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were ...

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still ...

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My an...

And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying fo...

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknow...

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been...

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

dJack be nimble,Jack be quick,Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick.Emma was still,Emma was late...

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurr...

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

The dead” we say   as if speakingof “the people” whogave up on making historysimply to get throughSo...

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone ...

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand th...

Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone ...

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...