Dead Quotes

6667 quotes by 3736 authors

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. — Scott Adams
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a… — Jean Baudrillard
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. — Martha Beck
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. — Martha Beck
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and… — Samuel Beckett
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — Hilaire Belloc
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each… — Robert Benchley
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium… — Walter Benjamin
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held… — Arnold Bennett
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. — Jeffrey Bernard
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as… — Annie Besant
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is… — Annie Besant
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a… — Annie Besant
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. — Jello Biafra
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys. — Jello Biafra
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. — Ambrose Bierce
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is… — Joe Biden

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