There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
“The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.” — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“Everybody was legally alive now. Before the got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families. — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
“What? What is it?” “It’s preprogrammed. For Earth.” We were so dead. Where the hell was the whiskey?” — James Cox Copy Share Image
They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that… — John Luckey McCreery Copy Share Image
You've been gone for many years, I cried for many years but your memory still lives with me for many reasons. — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Once many in the media finally began paying attention to the Wuhan coronavirus in a non-dismissive way, they swung wildly into another… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
“I understood that to live is to be free ... that to have friends is necessary ... that to fight is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life,… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make… — Teller Copy Share Image
“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image