Dead Quotes

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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. — William Holden
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to… — Ezra Pound
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead. — William Blake
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,… — John Evelyn
There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread. — John Cage
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health… — Wendell Berry
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs… — Sherwood Anderson
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only… — Chief Seattle
If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much… — Ehud Barak
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of… — Dwight L. Moody
As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same… — David Byrne
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. — Robert Foster Bennett
You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead. — John Goddard
Woman absent is woman dead. — Ambrose Bierce
Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we… — Natalie Goldberg
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times — Katha Pollitt
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise. — Jefferson Davis
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our… — Horatio Bottomley
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? — Euripides
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not… — Lauren Bacall
RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music… — Corey Taylor
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. — William Shakespeare

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