Dead Quotes

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial,...

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to...

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such ...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, A...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his respon...

Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“ She had shaken her h...

Sometimes dead is better

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin ...

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were ...

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still ...

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My an...

And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying fo...

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...

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

You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknow...

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been...

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

dJack be nimble,Jack be quick,Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick.Emma was still,Emma was late...

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurr...

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

The dead” we say   as if speakingof “the people” whogave up on making historysimply to get throughSo...

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone ...

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand th...

Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone ...

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To...

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far to...

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled ...

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the goo...

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something...

Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be...

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shav...

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED ...

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world’s greatest untap...

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing...

All death matters.""Only to the living.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see i...

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully unc...

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

He looked out over the shirtless, muscled, tanned men and realised that right here, on this disco fl...

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

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

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Ch...

The hunter does not seek dead game.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that soun...

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their p...

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust a...

Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellying...

Let the dead bury the dead...

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...

There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, c...

For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead...

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

How quickly the dead faded into each other,

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend th...

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserab...

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dea...

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?