Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any…

“Latin’s a dead language, anyway,” he said. “Bite your tongue.” Quin sounded like a shocked grandmother. “That’s English you’re speaking,” Matheus said. “The language…

— Amy Fecteau

There's nothing deader than a dead love.

— Leona Helmsley

“He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.”

— Howard Browne

You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would…

— Laura E. Richards

“Just move the train, for fuck's sake, she's not getting any deader.”

— Shalom Auslander

“It would be hard to be deader without special training.”

— Terry Pratchett

“What’s the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don’t get any deader.”

— David Harry

Go limper, play deader.

— The Covert Comic

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

— D. H. Lawrence

“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist…

— Toni Morrison

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”

— David Kyuman Kim

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -…

— Rita Mae Brown