Dead Quotes

6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in… — Kenneth Branagh
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. — Ernestine Rose
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the… — Robert Hass
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service… — Plato
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. — Guillaume Apollinaire
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. — Robert Browning
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign… — Boris Pasternak
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. — Rick Moody
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. — Gustave Flaubert
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem. — I F Stone
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally… — Ambrose Bierce
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert… — Nicholas D. Kristof
In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation… — Astley Cooper
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. — Caryl Churchill
But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had… — Brenna Yovanoff
Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt… — Richard Laymon
On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise. And the glory of His resurrection share. When His chosen ones shall… — Unknown Author
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together. — Unknown Author
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles… — William C. Oates
Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I… — Unknown Author
The past is dead except for the life you give it — Myles Munroe
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt… — William Booth
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of… — Jack Handey

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