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Quotes About Dead

Who changes, who even slows this dead dazzling drunk in the wings of life we live?
~ Du Fu
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
~ Lope de Vega
Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
~ Passenger
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
~ James Crumley
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
~ Jack Abbott
Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.
~ Walt Whitman
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
~ Jim Carroll
Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air.
~ Jim Murphy
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
~ Jim Thompson
It might take so.e time to get used to cooking with a stupid, dead fish looking on. Close To Famous
~ Joan Bauer
She's weird, just like the rest of us," Poseidon interrupted. "Speak for yourself! Just because I rule the dead and my pet is a dog with three heads, that doesn't make me weird," Hades said. Then he thought about it. "Oh wait, maybe it does.
~ Joan Holub
I can't imagine anything more fun that spending a holiday in the home of the man who wants me dead. Like our own fuckin' Hallmark movie, but with live ammo.
~ Joanna Wylde
The man was like heroin-seductive, addictive and a damned good way to wake up dead.
~ Joanna Wylde
They are fair resting-places for the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven.
~ Joaquin Miller
Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
his countenance became fixed, and, touched as it now was by the silver whiteness of the moon-light, he resembled one of those marble statues of a monument, which seem to bend, in hopeless sorrow, over the ashes of the dead
~ Ann Radcliffe
In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.
~ Anna Akhmatova
The ultimate achievement of mankind would be, not just self-destruction, but the destruction of all life; the transformation of the living world into a dead planet.
~ Anna Kavan
The scientist's skin crackled with excitement. "That's the question that humans always ask—always, always. They want to scoop out the brains of their dead friends, plop them inside a nice new carapace, and presto! Resurrection!
~ Annalee Newitz
This body has been disturbed." "I'd be disturbed too if I was suddenly dead," I replied.
~ Anne Bishop
Innovation is made possible by the width and breadth of a person's rummaging around the world, in traffic with the living and the dead. It is by transgressing the boundaries that separate us that we begin to find solutions to the world's present complexities because inclusion and incorporation of "the other" creates the conditions for innovation.
~ Anne Bogart
I'm a strange new kind of inbetween thing aren't I not at home with the dead nor with the living
~ Anne Carson