Dead Quotes
6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors
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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
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You can't break a broken heart. It's like killing what's dead.
— Zhi Shuen
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A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The…
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a lake…
— Billy Wilder
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I wonder why uncivilized Europeans conducted slave trade!see now they are all dead.
— Peter Marley
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But what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun on again, a dead fruit and all that flies today is crooked and…
— Anne Sexton
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I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects,…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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People only start caring if you're good looking, famous or either dead.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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We say only fools show their anger on non-living things by throwing or breaking them but its far better to hurt the dead things than…
— Bhargavi Rajendran
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Emotionally:I'm done, Mentally:I'm drained, Spiritually:I feel dead, Physically: I Smile..
— Aashi
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around thefeet; impulses smothered…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.
— Unknown Author
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I was drowning. Sinking in quicksand and he was filling up my lungs and I was dead. He looked up at me, hands fumbling over…
— Sarah Wilkins
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Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
— Henry David Thoreau
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They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere.
— Unknown Author
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
— William Butler Yeats
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I should delight to have my curls half drowned In Tyrian dews, and head with roses crowned, And once more yet (ere I am laid…
— Robert Herrick
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I laugh when I think that all of Rome made it a point not to pronounce Drusilla's name.Because Rome was mistaken for all those years.…
— Albert Camus
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