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Dead Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
- A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds…
- Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
- Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
- The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon