Dead Man Quotes

162 Dead Man quotes by 140 unique authors

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the… — Charles Frazier
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know. — Bob Dylan
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead — H. L. Mencken
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies… — Wovoka
We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. — Helen Prejean
The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is… — Wladimir Klitschko
Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin. — Dan Rice
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard… — Harriet Tubman
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ. — Dwight L. Moody
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. — Raymond Chandler
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man… — B. H. Liddell Hart
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. — Carl Sandburg
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. — George Bernard Shaw
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. — Patrick Swayze
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than… — Henry David Thoreau
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not… — Stevie Smith
You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for… — Jack London

Who Wrote These Dead Man Quotes

140 authors contributed a total of 162 Dead Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: