A tethered thing is a dead thing...

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

— Tom Riley

The main thing is not to be dead.

— Robert Motherwell

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

— Charles Starkweather

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

— Terry Pratchett

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

— John Updike

“Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?”

— Michelle Sagara West

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body…

— Leonard Sweet

Islam is a dead thing.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

— John Fowles

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

— Cyril Connolly

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect…

— Kevin Gutzman

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

— Khalil Gibran