I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

— Jean Cocteau

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

— Andre Gide

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

— Roger von Oech

“Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.”

— Raheel Farooq

“If you don't execute your ideas, they die.” — Roger von Oech”

— Stephen Guise

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

— Barack Obama

When the faculties of mind find their poise in truth, all lesser ideas die or disappear through a process of transmutation.

— Anonymous

“You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?”

— Kathy Bryson

“Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

“Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.”

— Mitch Albom

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

— Jeanette Winterson

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can.…

— Mitch Albom

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.

— Richard Siken