Dead Quotes

6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors

A man who is not with a woman is a dead man. — William A. Drake
We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we… — Jimmy Sangster
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do… — Benjamin E. Mays
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis
I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet. — Jamie Hyneman
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men. — Rumi
We honor the dead best by treating the living well. — Jennifer Granholm
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing… — Stephen King
It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again. — Kurt Vonnegut
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the… — Mike Nichols
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death… — John Updike
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the… — Pope John Paul II
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny… — Carl Sagan
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job — John Frankenheimer
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung
Being dead is being weak and walled off. — Richard McKenna
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and… — Arundhati Roy
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. — Henry David Thoreau
I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect,… — Jim Norton
Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's… — Nicole Williams
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get… — Alan Watts
I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass… — Bill Hicks
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win.… — Matilda Joslyn Gage

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