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Dead Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
- He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
- I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an…
- When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the…
- Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
- The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The…
- I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon