Dead Man Quotes

162 Dead Man quotes by 140 unique authors

Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the… — Robert Graves
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion… — Charles Dickens
You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion.… — Joyce Meyer
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave. — Anthony Horowitz
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. — George Orwell
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in… — Paul Auster
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war) — J.R.R. Tolkien
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead… — William Faulkner
Mind the dead man, my dear. — Rachel Caine
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the… — A. E. Housman
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all… — Haruki Murakami
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was… — Paul Auster
If you ask me if I’m imagining it again, I’m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.” Michael raised his eyebrows and glanced at… — Rachel Caine
Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents,… — Mark Millar
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am. — John Flanagan
They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately.… — Brandon Sanderson
Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter — George R. R. Martin
The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain,… — Jennifer Donnelly
Was using “dead-man’s-toe” morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts? — Kim Harrison
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. — Mario Puzo
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe.… — John le Carre
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then… — John Green

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