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Quotes About Dead

It's no longer Colonel Norwood's time. The dead must not rise – they undermine everything their dying created. Resurrecting Norwood is an attempt to cancel history. I can't allow that, any more than any other human being would. And so all of this is a challenge to me. I was concerned that it might be a deliberate trap.
~ Algis Budrys
But in a world where England is finished and dead,I do not wish to live.
~ Alice Duer Miller
I mean, they're made out of dust. You're all just dust and dried blood, you're dead. You are not absolute.
~ Alice Notley
bewildered were the dead going about their days and nights in the dark putting their feet down carefully and finding themselves floating
~ Alice Oswald
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~ William Butler Yeats
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
~ Yeardley Smith
The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
~ Matthew McGrory
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
~ Jane Leavy
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.
~ Rose George
Just wait until you're alive again." I look over at her. "What? You've got a problem with us Revenant-Americans?" "Hey, some of my best friends are dead. But you look like you're running a quart low.
~ Richard Kadrey
Carlos comes back with our drinks. "What should we drink to?" "To love," says Brigitte. "To the few loyal customers I have left," says Carlos. I have to think for a minute. "To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon." Everyone in the bar drinks to that.
~ Richard Kadrey
It's part of why I came to Los Angeles. My real work. I kill the dead.
~ Richard Kadrey
From beneath the Disney new-releases rack, Kasabian's head begins to wail. "Oh God! Oh Jesus, fuck! I'm dead!" It's quality wailing. Downtown, I became kind of a connoisseur of wailing and this is prime stuff. "I'm dead! I'm dead!
~ Richard Kadrey
At a refugee community in Onagawa, an old neighbor would appear in the living rooms of the temporary houses and sit down for a cup of tea with their startled occupants. No one had the heart to tell her that she was dead; the cushion on which she had sat was wet with seawater.
~ Richard Lloyd Parry
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
~ Richard Siken
The waters of the dead, a clear road, every lover in the form of stars, the road blocked.
~ Richard Siken
You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.
~ Richelle Mead
Letter to Rose from Strigoi Dimitri. Delivered to Rose after her return from Russia and her quest to Kill Dimitir, which she thought she completed. "You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again next time I see you- which will be soon Love, D.
~ Richelle Mead
He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him How that could be - I thought the dead were souls, He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious That there's something the dead are keeping back? Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.
~ Robert Frost
She's an innocent mortal. She deserves better than me." "Right, because you're a disgusting, slobbering beast who'll rip her throat out and toss her dead body out to sea.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
My office is trashed," he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. "Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.
~ Kim Harrison
What a slug's ass. If he doesn't go to the hospital and die on paper, then we have a dead vamp to explain and will be brought up on insurance fraud. Rache, I'm too pretty to go to jail!
~ Kim Harrison
I've got chunks of dead human in my garden smelling like month-old unicorn piss!
~ Kim Harrison
All I'm saying is you've been dating him for three months. Most guys you date are either dead or running scared by now.
~ Kim Harrison