Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of…

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

— William Butler Yeats

(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull…

— Roald Dahl

“That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.”

— Rebecca McKinsey

“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say…

— Charles Hamilton Sorley

“Tintin! Are you dead? Say yes or no but answer me!”

— Snowy

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

— Bette Davis

You are dead when you say that you have achieved enough.

— Jatin Tanwer

“It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead when his…

— George Orwell

You're dead to me and nothing you do or say can bring you back alive.

— SONYA PARKER

Bitch, you're dead to me and nothing you do or say can bring you back alive

— SONYA PARKER

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You…

— Neil Gaiman

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

— Patrick Ness

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

— Kate Clinton