Dead Men Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children? — George Whitefield
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. — Raymond Chandler
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants… — Kurt Vonnegut
Dead men have no victory. — Euripides
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. — Jorge Luis Borges
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
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 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
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
Dead men tell no tales, Mary. — Daphne du Maurier
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. — Raymond Chandler
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
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
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
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
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war) — J.R.R. Tolkien

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