Dead Quotes

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

God is not a dead equation!

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.