Dead Quotes

6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it — George Bernard Shaw
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. — Rose Macaulay
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her… — Arthur Miller
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. — Martial
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already? — Cynthia Heimel
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead. — Mark Twain
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. — Henry Beston
When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All… — Ugo Betti
There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead. — Saadi

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