Dead Quotes
6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors
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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
— Robert Burns
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
— Richard Russo
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
— William Johnson Cory
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I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
— Socrates
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
— John Heywood
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but…
— Abraham Polonsky
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Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or…
— Leon Kass
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All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
— C.S. Lewis
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time…
— Barry Pepper
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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew…
— Mary Crosby
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But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them?…
— Max Brooks
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You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go…
— Anna Friel
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The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led…
— Aubrey de Grey
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this…
— Panayiotis Zavos
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me,…
— Stephen Spender
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As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
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Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers…
— Camilla Gibb
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You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because…
— Rachel Wade
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It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something…
— Toni Blake
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Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky,…
— Jim Rohn
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The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around…
— Sylvia Browne
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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of…
— Dean Koontz
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