Dead Quotes · Page 7

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

— Hugh Griffith

“A dead black man—nothing to bother about.”

— Henning Mankell

“Hue had become a city of the dead.”

— Mark Bowden

“They're all gone. Everyone's dead”

— Melina Marchetta

“and a person is dead.”

— Jennifer Roy

“I wonder what it's like to be dead.”

— Sebastian Faulks

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no business on a dead planet

— David R. Brower

I'm better off dead than being alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

— Im Nothing

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

— R. D. Laing

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

— James Thurber

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

— W. Somerset Maugham

For the unions, it is simple. There are no jobs on a dead planet.

— Sharan Burrow

“Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.”

— Fakeer Ishavardas

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

— Israel Zangwill

“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

— Anne Rice

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

— A. Scott Berg

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and…

— Jeremy Kyle

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

— Grace Metalious

When you're dead, you're dead. I believe in shapes - you're not conscious of it, but you're like a tree that grows…

— Gaspar Noe

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

— P. D. James

“There’s something special about visiting a graveyard. Both life and death meet together in time.”

— Eric Overby

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am…

— Charles Dickens

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time…

— Mary Roach

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Jake ignored him and went on. “If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I…

— Jennifer Crusie

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into…

— G. M. Trevelyan

But, if you read science journals or the inside of Snapple caps, you might already know that watching TV is the closest…

— Sara Pascoe

“A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a…

— Patrick Ness

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I…

— Phil Robertson

Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never…

— Dan Wells

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

— Philip Pullman

“Only dead Salmon swim with the current”

— Ben McNutt - Woodsmoke

“A pure love is a dead love.”

— Albert Camus

“I was dead for 30 seconds”

— Chris Herren

Living, learn, must learn from you dead

— Eavan Boland

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

— Henry Kirke White

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

You're either living or you're dead.

— Lil Wayne