Dead Men Quotes

53 Dead Men quotes by 49 unique authors

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 naïve 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
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Books are dead men talking. — George R. R. Martin
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do… — George R. R. Martin
Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than… — Jeaniene Frost
The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce… — Kerstin Gier
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained… — Langston Hughes
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do. — Neil Gaiman
We are all dead men on leave. — Eugen Levine
I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong. — Vita Sackville-West
And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their… — Dylan Thomas

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