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Quotes About Dead

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
~ Jaroslav Pelikan
We are weighted with the outmoded dreams of dead men and dead systems, walking-corpse institutions and undead, blood-sucking ideologies long past their expiration date which yet haunt the planet, entrapping the joy of the living within the dead ribcage walls of their rotting, false order, and which direly need a stake through the heart simply because they are no longer relevant.
~ Jason Louv
whose hand my folded soul shall know while on faint hills do frailly go The peaceful terrors of the snow, and before your dead face which sleeps,a dream shall pass)
~ E.E. Cummings
P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Help me to vengeance," she said. "Give the Greeks a bitter homecoming. Stir up your waters with wild whirlwinds when they sail. Let dead men choke the bays and line the shores and reefs.
~ Edith Hamilton
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
~ Edith Wharton
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
~ Edmund Burke
entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
~ Edmund Morris
He sat astonished in front of the menu, as if he had never seen one before. There were pages of dead things – cows, shrimps, pigs, oysters, lambs – stretched out like a casualty list, accompanied by a brief description of how they had been treated since they died – skewered, grilled, smoked, and boiled. Christ, if they thought he was going to eat these things they must be mad.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
If such a state is to be established, it can only be established over our dead bodies.
~ Efraim Karsh
The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
By the time Vizzini fell over, dead, I'd finished my popcorn and put the bag down. I wanted some more. It seemed like the beast was always hungry. I wondered, if I was transformed back, would I be fat?
~ Alex Flinn
Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.
~ Alex Grecian
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said;Tie up the knocker! say I'm sick, I'm dead.The Dog-star rages!
~ Alexander Pope
It's a sobering fact, the historian Timothy Snyder points out, that 'cultures of memory are organized by round numbers, intervals of ten; but somehow the remembrance of the dead is easier when the numbers are not round, when the final digit is not a zero.
~ Alexander Wolff
Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper What sort of disagreement?" -Dante I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper
~ Alexandra Ivy
Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.
~ Alexandra Ivy
Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)
~ Alexandra Ivy
Bloody hell, what happened to you?" -Dante "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper "What sort of disagreement?" -Dante "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper
~ Alexandra Ivy
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
~ Craig L. Thomas
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
~ Uma Thurman
Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
~ L. Neil Smith
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
~ Xenophon
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~ Washington Irving