Dead Quotes

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A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do… — Khalil Gibran
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As… — Mark Lilla
I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead… — Wladimir Klitschko
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! — Sigmund Freud
The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world. — Tommy Franks
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then… — Colleen Houck
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can… — Timothy Findley
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes… — Martha Graham
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center… — James Darren
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past… — Robert Louis Stevenson
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such… — Lydia M. Child
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid. — Ricky Gervais
No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is… — Chuck Palahniuk
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living. — Khalil Gibran
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. — John F. Kennedy
I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad. — Charlie Sheen
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung… — Marcel Proust

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