Quotation Explorer - 'Dead'

then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead. - Earl Lovelace
If you are not dead, then there is hope. get up and go conquer the world. - Fenley Douglas
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. - Aldous Huxley
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. - G. K. Chesterton
See them so it seems that humanity is dead. - Tanmaya Guru
If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was. - Martha Grimes
Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction. - H.R. Wakefield
For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. - Zack W. Van
Dead ends are where the real thinking begins. - Marty Rubin
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable. - Bhagavad Gita
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready. - Mahatma Gandhi
The past is dead, let's focus on tomorrow instead. - Greg Graffin
You are dead, you know! he screeched delightedly, Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE! - William Axtell
Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - John Ruskin
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather
fallen & broken, but not yet dead. Still breathing... Beware i will rise soon!!! - Balkrishn Sanmotra
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was not Death, for I stood up,And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon. - Emily Dickinson
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. - Bertrand Russell
MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward. - Ambrose Bierce
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead. - H. L. Mencken
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. - Og Mandino
In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead! - Morrissey
Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all. - Dara Horn
The dead have highways." - Clive Barker
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love. - Greta Garbo
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell) - Jack London
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts; they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men.
What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead we are just dead?
The poetry of the earth is never dead. - John Keats
You smell so good,""No, I don't, I smell like death.""You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death.""I was dead a long time.""And now you're not. Hence the alive smell. - Amy Tintera
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. - Homer
...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? - Paul Simon
Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to impart the life of the gospel without telling a person that he or she is dead. - Pazaria Smith
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. - Richelle E. Goodrich
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. - Sigmund Freud
I try to live without you,everytime I do I feel dead. - Three Days Grace
Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. - Michael S. Harper
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow. - Martin Luther
It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past. - Yasin al Hafiz
Some people live such boring lives; it’s Black & White, so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some Blue, some Green, some Red. - RVM
It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere... - Emma Donoghue
Only the dead has seen th end of war - Mirza Tabish
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. - Ambrose Bierce
REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge. - Ambrose Bierce
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson
I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll beold. And then you’ll be dead. - Tim Minchin
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead - Frank Herbert
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down. - Diane Setterfield
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary. - Leonard Sweet
a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening - The Band Perry
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit - Benny Bellamacina
If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit - Stephen King
I will try to write books until I drop dead. - Cornelia Funke
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive - Stanley Kubrick
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. - L.M. Montgomery
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead. - Louis L'Amour
A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito - Nobuhiro Watsuki
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley
Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce
A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it. - G. K. Chesterton
People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. - Tanya Huff
A street where there are no children playing is a dead street! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow. - P. H. Solomon
The living need charity more than the dead. - George Arnold
A spirit without an outlet for its passion, is as good as dead. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive. - Israelmore Ayivor
As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies. - Rod Serling
Power is only an aphrodisiac for the living dead - Dean Cavanagh
In the still of the night, when you are serenely falling asleep and an epiphany suddenly hits you. Roll your ass off that bed and start typing because that fleeting moment will never pass by you again...You can sleep when your dead!!! - Racheal Lachman
A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling
Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones
. . .the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living. - Carrie La Seur
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. - Lady Gaga
We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck
You see a dead enemy soldier and you say, At least it wasn’t one of ours. You see a dead American soldier—one of your own—and you say, At least it wasn’t me. You lose a friend and you say, To hell with this. Get me out of here. - Donald Malarkey
A live donkey is better than a dead lion. - Matshona Dhliwayo
...only one man lived who could understand 's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead. Muriel Rukeyser - Gibbs
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. - Edmund Burke
The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep). - Rohan Nath
A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man. - Robert F. Kennedy
KEEP, v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring: "Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep." But when upon the tomb 'twas wrought Whose was it? -- for the dead keep naught. Durang Gophel Arn - Ambrose Bierce
Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry - Harlan Coben
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. - Jimmy Buffett
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. - Edward Abbey
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead - Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Quote from FUTURE GONE:…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams are dead now. - Alexandar Tomov
Dead men make convenient heroes because they cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides it’s easier to build a monument than to build a better world. - Rev. Dr. William Barber I
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. - Anonymous
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. - Pearl Bailey
God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
The only thing good about it is you're not dead. - Lillian Hellman
A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold. - Robert W. Service
Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts. - David Brown
I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead! - Emily Brontë
Being dead is highly overrated. It’s no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale - P.J. Gordon
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. - Anthon St. Maarten
I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. - Pamela Bone
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead. - Woody Allen
Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars. - Robert W. Service
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. - Wisława Szymborska
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive. - Dada Bhagwan
...in that rich earth a richer dust concealed.(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.) - Rupert Brooke
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. - P.G. Wodehouse
If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead! - Antoni Omeihe
So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and they do something for anything. When you live life with a blurry vision, you live a blurry life. Vision is life, and a life without vision is a dead life - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Marcus Porcius Cato
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time. - William Faulkner
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).
Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead. - Twyla Tharp
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. - Mark Twain
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji - Nobuhiro Watsuki
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Christopher Paolini
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. - W. Somerset Maugham
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. - Irwin Shaw
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true - Meindert DeJong
Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. - Doug MacLeod
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning. - Dennis Hopper
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. - Mark Twain
For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a reunion. The very idea of resurrection is so seductive a concept it's easy to forget, before you can rise from the dead you have to spend a few days in hell. - Emily Thorne
Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion. - Donatella Versace
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. - Kahlil Gibran
How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard. - Linda Berdoll
The living dead do things without putting life into it. - Lailah Gifty Akita
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. - Lady Gaga
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon. - Edward Gorey
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - Hilaire Belloc
Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it. - Tim Burton
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead. - Ambrose Bierce
The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body! - Deyth Banger
and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit. - Allen Ginsberg
ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY. - Amy King
You don’t have to be dead to leave a legacy. - Onyi Anyado
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. - Woody Allen
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics. - Simon Soloveychik
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. - Unknown
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. - Linda Ellerbee
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead. - Woody Allen
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.
As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. - Bernhard Schlink
Science is the record of dead religions. - Oscar Wilde
Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away. - Kristy Pellegrin
Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born!- - RVM
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride. - Nathanael Greene
Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place. - Anthony Liccione
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. - Ernest Hemingway
Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he’s dead. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. - Oscar Wilde
A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan
All living things aren't alive.All dead things are not dead. - Debasish Mridha
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. - Carl Sagan
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. - William Faulkner
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? - Lois McMaster Bujold
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. - Vita Sackville-West
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. - Stephen King
APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. - Ambrose Bierce
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat. - Santosh Kalwar
Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead. - Philip K. Dick
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. - Jesus/John
I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity. - Alan de Jager
Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden. - Mary Stewart
You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't,it just makes them dead. - Joe Walker
...anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit. - P.G. Wodehouse
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. - Albert Einstein
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - James M. Barrie
Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead? - Benita J. Prins
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? - Freddie Mercury
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. - Kurt Vonnegut
Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things. - Vivian Vande Velde
It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. - Lily Langtry
And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own. - June Jordan
Better live than dead. - Touaxia Vang
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger! - Mehmet Murat ildan
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder
You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you. - Denice Envall
The full length of a frog doesn't have to be seen when it's dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always. - Constance Chuks Friday
An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil. - Raheel Farooq
I don't hate people, i assume they are dead! - Chintan Jain
A living fool is worth less than a dead hero. - Matshona Dhliwayo
For those who believe in the resurrection, death is inconsequential. In the resurrection, those that were dead live, and those who live believe they shall never die. - Emily Thorne
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. - Jane Jacobs
He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed - Matt Hilton
I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. - James Watson
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. - Gustave Flaubert
It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness. - John Steinbeck
Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy - Munia Khan
What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead one..." Geordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption - Hilary Mortz
He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish. - Spanish proverb
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. - Alexander Hamilton
The 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 past the ocean is flat again. - John Maynard Keynes
As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not. - Deyth Banger
Only dead surpasses the sufferings - Compton Gage
Remember never to text and drive, it's bad grammar, even if you have a deadline. You might cross the line and dead may be your destination. Think about it!! - Neil Leckman
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form. - Anne Fadiman
The aquariums of the imagination contain only dead fish. - Marty Rubin
I pushed him against his Jeep, looked him dead in the eye and kissed him. He asked if he could come up, and I just walked up the steps and said, not yet. That was the moment I knew I loved him. - Dominic Riccitello
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television. - Germaine Greer
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. - Dorothy Parker
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it. - Susanna Kaysen
Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move. - V.S. Atbay
It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you. - Gugu Mona
Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon. - Clarice Lispector
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. - Karl Marx
Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I aintent dead - Terry Pratchett
I'm just an innocent racist who likes to flirt with young adult women And I meet emotionally retarded misfits who are kinky about infants' feet, scheming psychopaths, suicidal emos, brain dead skinheads and mestizos posing as white supremacists. - Greg Deane
Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already. - Rose in The Inspired Caregiver
If you are not dancing, your dead. - Lisa Alpine
Takes birth in me,also, dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals,effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey,of controversy.I am a Potpourri. - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face. - Srividya Srinivasan
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking. - Orrin Woodward
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. - Randy K. Milholland
A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing. - Marty Rubin
Call no man happy until he is dead. - Solon
Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round. - Marty Rubin
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.
Be a person who can dream about spring in the dead of winter. - Debasish Mridha
If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that? - Michel Templet
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world? - Christy Leigh Stewart
Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn’t for him.Jenny Smith In The Navigator by - Steve Merrick
For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat. - Lynn Margulis
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one - Edith Sitwell
I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead.
For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. - Bible
A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title) - G.R. Matthews
When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. - Sylvia Plath
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. - L. M. Montgomery
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead. - Megan Boyle
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. - Oscar Wilde
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. - Jeanette Winterson
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - Matt Groening
Lyon - "Love makes you weak, weak makes you vulnerable, vulnerable makes you dead. - Artemis Crow
You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do. - Srividya Srinivasan
It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead - Nick Hornby
the death door is waiting for us to dead - Myat Pann Hmwe
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like. - Andrea Gibson
Only the dead do not need wisdom; none who are living can survive without it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. - Robert Ingersoll
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. - Samuel Johnson
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. - Samuel Davies
R.I.P.Tom Conlon O'Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping. - Spike Milligan
The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't. - Neil Gaiman
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? - Jason E. Hodges
I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties. - Fran Lebowitz
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. - Hans Christian Andersen
The dead sleep soundly but do not dream. - Marty Rubin
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath. - John Green
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi
You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave - Munia Khan
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Mark Twain
Now you're dead, and I'm buried. - Cath Crowley
The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart. - Mya Waechtler
I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead. - Amy LaPalme
We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living. - James Jean-Pierre
The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. - E. H. Carr
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead. - Alan W. Watts
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong - James Branch Cabell
Love is like a flower. Its upright when its in harmony and withered when its dead. - Dalia
In the long run, we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. - Euripides
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead. - Elton John
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. - Margaret Atwood
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. - Bret Easton Ellis
And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen. Jenny blinked. I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead? - Maggie Osborne
The final reward of the dead - to die no more - Friedrich Nietzsche
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. - Karl Marx
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. - Jeffrey McDaniel
Forgive me, Magnus.’‘I don’t know if I can.’‘You must.’Still looking into the distance, he said, ‘You need my forgiveness?’‘No. I’m dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live. - Raymond E. Feist
Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don’t go on hero quests. - Lynn Messina
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. - Robert A. Heinlein
They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it. - Elizabeth Horton-Newton
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. - Publilius Syrus
Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
To love and not be loved; is to die and not be dead - Jerry Darroch
When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory - Marcel Proust
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. - Lois McMaster Bujold
He could, Andi."Andi's heart turned to ice.It wasn't possible.He was dead, cast away into some deep, dark hell where he'd never be able to claw his way back out. - Sasha Alsberg
Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us! - Deyth Banger
Don't consider my kindness as my weakness, the beast in me is sleeping not dead. - Moosa Rahat
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. - Rudolf Rocker
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. - Samuel Beckett
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. - w.e. channing
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? - Emilie Autumn
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. - Martin Luther King Jr.
A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah
Your Dream is not a person when you feel broken and failure enough to say that your dream is dead .Revive it ! don't give up . it's the only thing that makes you not a robot , it's the only thing that makes your life got a meaning . - Amir Shalaby
For a living dog is better than a dead lion, - Bible
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. - Franz Kafka
To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life. - D.H. Lawrence
One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead. - Brooke Warra
People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them. - Donna Lynn Hope
It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
The rain fell like dead bullets. - Scott Nicholson
Books are the way the dead talk to the living. - Laurie Anderson
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. - Kate Chopin
And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. - Anne Sexton
It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye. - Kristin Cashore
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. - Kurt Vonnegut
The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life.
A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. - Munia Khan
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears. - Marcel Proust
My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people. - Pamela Burford, Undertaking Irene
A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere. - Derek Prince
For no man lives long when his dreams are dead - Gene Wolfe
The dead should not rule the living. - Thomas Jefferson
Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. - Mary Everest Boole
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism would drop dead - Carl-John X Veraja
The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive - Munia Khan
To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. - Amadeo Bordiga
All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual. - Herman Wouk
Dead tree branches rattled,the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to unfold.A lone wolf howled,the full moon it prowled,ready for evils untold. - A. Lee Brock
My love translated sounds like a dead language. - Salma Deera
If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead. - Susan Spann
DEAD, adj. Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! Squatol Johnes - Ambrose Bierce
And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead. - Joe Walker
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. - C.S. Lewis
It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead! - Deyth Banger
Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner.
The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. - John Fowles
The older lady smiled a friendly welcome that rivaled her preserves for sweet appeal. She could have been someone’s grandmother complete with close-cropped white hair if she wasn’t wearing a worn Grateful Dead T-shirt over a long-sleeved thermal. The 1987 Summer Tour. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be. - Marcus Sedgwick
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. - Steven Galloway
Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood. - Deyth Banger
I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine! - Stephen King
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. - Walter Raleigh
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx
But one kiss levitates above all the others. Theintersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. - Jeffrey McDaniel
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. - Voltaire
I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead. - Ursula K. Le Guin
An old liar told me hereTo think ahead and save my money.I should have spent it on ribbons.I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather playedWhen the daft wife heard him resoundingIn the deep pine woods in early November. - Menzies McKillop
We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. - Barry Unsworth
Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name. - Ravi Howard
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. - Keri Hulme
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. - Doctor Who
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell. - H. L. Mencken
Dreams are horrible, to don't talk about nightmares they are more often. But there is always one gift from a person which you know is dead, that's how it works and it will continue to work. - Deyth Banger
War would end if the dead could return. - Stanley Baldwin
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star. - Jalaluddin Rumi
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet
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
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. - Yiyun Li
And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all the sounds of the forest that showed that life was still being lived blended with the souls of the dead in a woodland requiem. The whole forest now sang for Granny Weatherwax. - Terry Pratchett
From one point my father is dead I need time to get rid of this topic, from other side I will have a big holiday from 3.28.2016 up to the end of the April Vacation. That's awesome, isn't it??I will be a lot of time out of school! - Deyth Banger
Glory is the sunshine of the dead - Honoré de Balzac
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. - e e cummings
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell
A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. - Jayleigh Cape
I may not be perfect for you or the world but guess what I'm not perfect for myself either. I'm dead to you and the world just as I'm dead to myself.-p.b - Primrose Burrell
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_. - Ambrose Bierce
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead - unknown
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living - Confucius
Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories. - Riku H. Petro
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. - James Thurber
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. - Charles Bukowski
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now. - Gaston Leroux
They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels. - Abby Lass
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive. - Frederick Turner
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts. - Toni Morrison
Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me?--Wrath - Hiromu Arakawa
Life is but a dream for the dead. - Gerard Way
Show me a person without troubles and I'll show you someone who is dead - Levon Peter Poe
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.
The author is still dead, folks!! - A. Cretan
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. - J. K. Rowling
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past. - Will Durant
You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish. - Peter Lerangis
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. - Todd Stocker
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? - Unknown
Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead - James Thurber
All persons living and dead are purely coincidental.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
Even the dead keep changing and adding to their contradictions. - Marty Rubin
I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film. - Deyth Banger
I have been resurrected into the present time because the past is dead. - Susan Segovia Munoz
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines. - D.H. Lawrence
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides
Grrrrowpt. said dead Penelope. Dead Huthbert nodded, and hugged her. She moved his dusty hand from her dusty ass." BATS 2015 - Fred Barnett
Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no... - Ravi Howard
Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost. - Todd Stocker
count no man happy until he be dead. - Solon
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. - Samuel Goldwyn
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. - Jane Austen
Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind. - Debasish Mridha
He is the Firstfruits of God's harvest, and millions have followed Him. The same power that raised Him from the dead lives in them, giving them life everlasting. - Ron Cantor
Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To live drown in love.To live like the dead, fear the love. - Debasish Mridha
God is dead. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them. - Cinda Williams Chima
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. - Charles Kingsley
If you walk through a door with dead locks,bolts and chains don't betray or turn your back on that trust.The privilege of knowing all that goes on behind that door should be treated as an extraordinary gift.For many people will only ever see half of the real person they've known for years. - Anonymous
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold
I said to my professor, "Why mourn the death of presidents, or anyone for that matter? The dead can't hear us." And he asked me if I believed in heaven. I said no. And then he asked if I had no faith in God. I said, "You have it wrong. It's God who has no faith in us. - Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey)
The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. - Aldous Huxley
Some live life passionately, some live just to be alive, while some are already dead and are waiting for it to be official. Live your life to the fullest so your legacy won't ever die. - Farshad Asl
His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent. - Swami Beyondananda
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands. - James J. Tritten
Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them. - Seth Grahame-Smith
The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don’t be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it. - Steve Maraboli
There is no point to be alive if you live like a dead man - Kevin Bogaert
Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art. - Kevin Wilson
It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him. - Sophocles
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. - George Eliot
Oh, dead man, you're dead wrong, I tell him. The world goes on stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. - Jennifer Donelly
To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist! - Deyth Banger
Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army. - Peter Mohrbacher
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. - Stephen King
To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other percentage is anger, and very negative sides. So far most people are dead. - Deyth Banger
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. - Walter Benjamin
So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them. - Anthony Liccione
Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. - Gustave Flaubert
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family. - Paul Bamikole
She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead. - Suzanne Collins
But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux. - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead. - Salman Rushdie
Everyone has a story with coca-cola people like Wayne Dyer even and people like Alan Rickman and many other people, so... they are dead so you can take it Coca-Cola is part of the history! - Deyth Banger
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. - Thomas Szasz
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. - Tennessee Williams
We could talk about the retraction of re-productive rights in North Carolina and Texas and Ohio, or we could conjure up a lot of statistics about domestic and sexual violence or women living in poverty. If the patriarchy is dead, the numbers have not gotten the memo. - Roxanne Gay
Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be. - Ellis Peters
You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long. - Hugh Macleod
She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want. - Richard Stark
...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die. - Erich Maria Remarque
God always knows our conscious, if it's bad He will stricken it, if it's good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you're dead to God. - Anthony Liccione
When we are no longer children we are already dead - Constantin Brancusi
Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. - Rainer Maria Rilke
What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money. - Harley King
Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it." - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane - Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The dead souls will say, how lucky are the living souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. - Girl234
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms. - Aniruddha Sastikar
Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that. - Ambrose Bierce
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead. - Laura Moncur
Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. - Suzanne Collins
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future. - Luther Burbank
And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do. - Alastair Reid
Heaven is a big place, honey. I don't know every dead person.''They'd probably be in hell anyway. - A.E. Jones
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man. - Francis Quarles
What may this mean, that thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon? - William Shakespeare
Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality - Brenda Perlin
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can. - Michelle Franklin
I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead. - Marty Rubin
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. - Slavoj Žižek
Mind is like an archaeologist, it can only dissect and research dead things, events on how, when, where & why. It can never be on the NOW. Only BEING is capable to be in the NOW and EXPERIENCE! - Ramana Pemmaraju
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. - Ambrose Bierce
If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. - Frank Zappa
Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. - Algernon Charles Swinburne
If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago. - Jestoni Revealed
Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning. - Anthony Liccione
#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T. - Mozaiah Thompson
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. - Homer
Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today - Joyce Chapman
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. - Ann Landers
There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away. - Wes Adamson
I have learned that only the dead have a steady state of mind. - Abeer Allan
Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader. - Jerry Scott
Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women’s work. - Charlotte Wood
All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead. - Milan Nikolić
Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better. - Banana Yoshimoto
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. - S.E. Cupp
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. - Ambrose Bierce
What looks as a dead and dark end can become a glowing and shimmering start only if one has the patience to keep trying with positivity in the mind... - Neelam Saxena Chandra
When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow." From The Bow of Destiny - P. H. Solomon
Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead. - Donna Lynn Hope
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. - Woody Allen
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207) - Christopher Paolini
Though I live I am but dead without your Love. - Solomon Debisette
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really that the person... (Pet Semetary 1 by Stephen King) - Deyth Banger
As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world died long ago, and the world's interest in me is also long dead. - Galations 6 14
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. - Elie Wiesel
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. - Tom Lehrer
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. - Russell Baker
No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life - Nobuhiro Watsuki
The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path. - Garth Nix - Sabriel
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) - Belinda McBride
I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath. - Elizabeth Scott
Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from No Boundaries. - Paul Xavier Jones
The only completely consistent people are the dead. - Aldous Huxley
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. - William Shakespeare
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - Edward Thomas
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.[Letter to Max Otto] - John Dewey
Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky... - Herodotus
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more. - Epicurus
If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body. - M.F. Moonzajer
I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - E.E. Cummings
The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame - Sam Selvon
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny. - Mamur Mustapha
dead people commit suicide!! - Twinkle (Sugandha) Varshney
If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan - Munia Khan
In life, never lose hope that you are nearing a dead end, Only when you reach the end of the road you realize a road to its left and to its right. - Mohammed Mushtaq GK
We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace. - Anthony Liccione
No more heartbrakes, Your dead. - Amiel Sudario
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -, philosopher and writer (1864-1936) - Miguel de Unamuno
Do not speak ill of the dead. - The Seven Sages
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. - Lawrence Clark Powell
The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead. - Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf
Love is dead, and the only thing remained is a small slice of respect. - Kambiz Shabankare
They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead. - Charlotte Brontë
Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time. - Arlene Ang
A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall... - Deyth Banger
Are there moments when our brains are not exercising? I questioned. That would be almost like being brain dead... - Vann Chow
Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone - Munia Khan
If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead! - Janet Evanovich
When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet. - Cédric Klapisch (screenplay writer); spoken by Xavier Rousseau in Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle
What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit. - Kellie Elmore
why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead - Stephen Hawking
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. - Aristotle
.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family. - Charlaine Harris
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino
I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars; yet I want to hold on to my spirit. - Munia Khan
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead. - Maurice Sendak
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. - Michael Bassey Johnson
He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. - Álvaro de Campos
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad. - R. D. Laing
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. - Sinclair Lewis
Growing up, I always wanted to be just like Abe Lincoln. Dead.
It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead. - Kevin Focke
A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead - Messaoud Mohammed
The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleepPaid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own lifeLoses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. - Randall Jarrell
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. - Santosh Kalwar
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb) - Habeeb Akande
O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth. - Deyth Banger
First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me. - Gayle Ramage
A moment in time is never dead. - Khalid Masood
We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves. - Marty Rubin
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. - Theodore Roethke
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
In the long run we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. - Samuel Goldwyn
I’m sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I’m most likely dead now, and I guess if there’s any kind of fairness in the afterlife I’m probably in hell getting roasted. But if that’s where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine - Michael Grant
Most people my age are dead at the present time. - Casey Stengel
You want to change? Lose the bitch. Be nicer to people. Stop telling them to "bite you" and threatening to kick them until they're dead. - Jen Lancaster
False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn. - Charlie Rae
If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?It's bad day in bad time, I can tell this for sure! - Deyth Banger
The worst thing about the dead rising? (Other than, you know, all the zombies?) The smell. Nothing kills the mood like the odor of three day old road kill and poo... -Katherine Anita Cho(KyCH) - Shawn Durnin
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. - Tiffany Madison
What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead. - Joshua Ferris
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. - Banana Yoshimoto
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. - Mary Harris Jones
Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet. - Louis C. K.
And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!The Wrong shall fail,the Right prevail,With peace on earth, good-will to men! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead. - Cassandra Clare
I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. - Michael McCormick (Vietnam Veteran)
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. - Bob Edwards
Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed - Munia Khan
Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead. - Nikki Rowe
And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that. - Roald Dahl
When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty. - Flannery O'Connor
If you don't have ups or downs in your life you're dead - Tripp Pugmire
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. - Plotinus
233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time - Derek Keck
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. - Rufus Wainwright
I want my rockstars dead. - Bill Hicks
Music is life, without the beat in your heart you would be dead. - Kalae Salazar
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. - Arthur Honegger
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. - Dame Rose Macaulay
A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go.
Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer. - Auliq Ice
If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it. - Israelmore Ayivor
I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed. - Wanda Lea Brayton
Let the seeds of hope sprout in the dead of winter. - Debasish Mridha
Cut off from the land that bore us,Betrayed by the land we find,Where the brightest have gone before us,And the dullest are most behind - Stand, stand to your glasses, steady!'T is all we have left to prize:One cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies! Bartholomew Dowling - http://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/re...
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds;and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere;and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry. (rahimullah) - Imam Shafi’i
No one can save the world unless those who are determined to destroy it are dead - Dr. Emmanuel Moore Abolo
I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. - Rory Stewart
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe. - Kemi Sogunle
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion. - Publilius Syrus
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. - Madeleine L'Engle
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. - Jane Goodall
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. - Ana Monnar
The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping. - Radclyffe Hall
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. - Bette Davis
Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life. - George Cooke
Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead. - John Marsden
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us. - Jim Carroll
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like? - Barbara Hillary
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. - Rick Riordan
They’re dogs. Never trust a man. Even when he’s dead. Especially when he’s dead. Bats 2015 - Fred Barnett
Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind? - Rob Thomas
Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands. - Michael Cart
I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead. - James Potter
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. - Alan W. Watts
God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. - Steve Jobs
The living and dead world are separated by breath. - Lailah Gifty Akita
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. - Ambrose Bierce
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead. - G. Campbell Morgan
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. - Bette Davis
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. - William Faulkner
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
What kind of people?"The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip mines. But none of that was the whole truth. They were more than that. - page 135 - Brenna Yovanoff
NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker. - Ambrose Bierce
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. - Robin Hobb
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them. - DaShanne Stokes
She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance. - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. - Robert G. Ingersoll
In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. - Richard de Bury
You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem! - Deyth Banger
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