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Quotes About Dead

The land remembers everything, though. It knows the steps of this nation's ballet of violence and forgetting. The land receives our dead, and the dead sing softly the song of us: blood.
~ Libba Bray
She shook her head and said mournfully, "The wheel's still going around, but her hamster's dead.
~ Linda Howard, Mr. Perfect
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
~ Roger Scruton
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
~ John Smith
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Whoever is devoid of the capacity of wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
~ Albert Einstein
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
~ Aldous Huxley
The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.
~ Aldous Huxley
And he thought for a moment how stupid our society had become, that its nanny-like concern for risk should prevent one man helping another to take a dead friend up the steps
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
~ Alexandre Dumas
One life one life and a broken tree it two trees mine a dead branch among the hundred living
~ Donald Revell
Donde los sentimientos por Dios están muertos, la adoración está muerta»
~ Donald S. Whitney
Wondering at the loneliness of the new dead, remembering Kitten and Kitten's need for light and life. She had no sorrow for Kitten dead; she had pity that scalded. She
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?
~ Dorothy Parker
I feel like I'm going to die,' he says. 'Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?' 'Only if you do it quietly.' 'I met this girl last night. I need your advice.' 'Come back later.' 'No. You might be dead.
~ Doug MacLeod
Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.
~ Douglas Clegg
In 1945, the Russians had laid siege to Berlin, and Hitler had been found dead inside an underground command center at his Berlin headquarters, having taken his own life.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The dead keep their secrets. And in a while we shall be as wise as they." —Alexander Smith "Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?" ? Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, (modern translation)
~ Douglas E. Richards
What's even more horrific than his existence," he added in disgust, "is that we in Germany let him come to power. Many of us were dead set against it, but not enough. The majority stood by and let him commit his atrocities.
~ Douglas E. Richards
This is as good a place as any to insist that all the characters in Evangellyfish are fictional, and I made them all up out of my own head. Any resemblance to any real people, living or dead, is their own darn fault. If they quit acting like that, the resemblance would cease immediately and we wouldn't have to worry about it.
~ Douglas Wilson
No one can save the world unless those who are determined to destroy it are dead
~ Dr. Emmanuel Moore Abolo
Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Honor is a fool's prize," Bane replied, reciting a passage from one of the volumes he had recently read in the archives. "Glory is of no use to the dead.
~ Drew Karpyshyn