Dead Quotes

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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live… — George Carlin
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. — Maynard James Keenan
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an… — Rajneesh
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus… — Laozi
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with… — Lawrence Hargrave
The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. — Mary C. Ames
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he… — Symeon the New Theologian
Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! — Philip II of Macedon
The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. — Alexander Suvorov
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his… — Walter J. Phillips
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't. — Charles Colson
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of… — John Updike
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord… — Karl Barth
In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never… — Lee Strobel
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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