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Quotes About Dead

The I.S. didn't teach its runners how to deal with this. Runners were runners, not murder investigators. They brought their tags in alive, even the dead ones.
~ Kim Harrison
The reds say that the Mars that is already here is nature. But it is not nature, because it is dead. It is only rock. The greens tell this, and say they will bring nature to Mars with their terraforming. But that is not nature either, that is only culture.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But then they weren't materialists at all!" He swore with disgust. "No wonder Marxism is dead." "Well, sir, actually a lot of people on Mars call themselves Marxists." "Shit! They might as well call themselves Zoroastrians, or Jansenists, or Hegelians." "Marxists are Hegelian, sir." "Shut up," Frank snarled, and broke the connection.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But that was life on Mars. They could be dead within minutes of any number of untoward events, as always.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.
~ Koji Suzuki
Ah, but she was a pastel wearer. She was forever dead to Sabine.
~ Kresley Cole
Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way- you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.' 'None taken. And would that be the sword training where you fly past my defenses and swat me on the ass, chirping, 'Dead!'? Another swat. 'Dead!'? Yeah, I'll get right on that.' 'No, that would be the training where you sprint like hell whenever you hear that I'm looking for you to train.
~ Kresley Cole
Why would they plot?" "They'll want the earth righted as soon as possible. Minors like to see dead Majors—because catastrophes end with the close of the game.
~ Kresley Cole
MacRieve stepped in front of her, clasping her nape, jealousy ablaze in his expression. Eyes on the prize, woman. It's a werewolf you'll have, or none at all. Is that right? Unless you like your men dead, because Damiano's already at the top of my list.
~ Kresley Cole
There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.
~ L. Frank Baum
Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood
~ L. Frank Baum
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
~ Kevin Hearne
It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.
~ Yasin al Hafiz
Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.
~ Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Nothing like a dose of spirits of the dead to chase away spirits of the vine.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds. Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard. The
~ Yasmine Galenorn
The kings of the old time are dead; The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie.
~ Yeats
Jerusalem, the only city in the world where the right to vote is granted even to the dead.
~ Yehuda Amichai
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
If an elephant's brain is in India its eyes and ears in China and its feet in Australia, then this elephant is most probably dead, and even if it is in some mysterious sense alive, it cannot see, hear or walk.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.
~ Yvonne Vera