Dead Quotes

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

Rather be dead than cool.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.