Dead Man Quotes

162 Dead Man quotes by 140 unique authors

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments! — Nicholas A. Basbanes
Dead men tell no tales, Mary. — Daphne du Maurier
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. — Raymond Chandler
If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a… — Neil Gaiman
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.… — Albert Camus
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms. — David Wellington
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naÃ¯ve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and… — Gustave Flaubert
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. — Jim Thompson
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years,… — Lord Dunsany
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men… — Robert E. Howard
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than… — Frank Beddor
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. — Henri Michaux
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness… — Anne Rice
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. — Cormac McCarthy
Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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