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Quotes About Dead

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~ Washington Irving
To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
You think this is the first time you've been at risk of killing someone? You're a nurse. The wrong injection and boom, dead patient. That never stopped you from working. You could run over three people on the way to the office. That never stopped you from driving. You did these things, despite the risks,
~ Daniel Price
Where is he?" "Five miles due west of Ajaccio." The don smiled. "Or thereabouts." "Alive one hour," said Keller, quoting a Corsican proverb, "dead the next.
~ Daniel Silva
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
In the words of a very famous dead person, "A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test."
~ Dave Barry
I suppose cats have sayings like... "A dead mouse...has no entertainment value." How's that? Doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it? Okay, how about..."Red sky at night, time for a nap...red sky in the morning... time for a nap.
~ Dave McKean
Now all the gang's dead except for me and Russell.
~ James Carlos Blake
And despite the fact that they all had their eyes open, every one of them looked dead.
~ James Dashner
you'll be cured of the Flare. That's exactly two weeks—starting the second you step through the Trans. If you don't make it, eventually you'll end up dead.
~ James Dashner
caused Gaia's regulation system to fail would lead to a hot and dead Earth
~ James E. Lovelock
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
~ James Gleick
Cetshwayo, sensing there were vast numbers of men absent, asked where the rest of his regiments were. When told that they were dead, the king prohibited his people from the traditional celebrations following such a victory. Instead, he called for a time of mourning and is quoted as saying, "A spear has been thrust into the belly of our nation…there are not enough tears to mourn the dead.
~ James Mace
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
~ James Russell Lowell
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
~ James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
~ James Russell Lowell
Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.
~ James Scott
for a few delirious moments I wondered if I was dead.
~ Donna Tartt
He was, like me, an only child. His father (born in Siberia, a Ukrainian national from Novoagansk) was in mining and exploration. "Big important job—he travels the world." Boris's mother—his father's second wife—was dead.
~ Donna Tartt
There had been a trapped thought about to emerge, something essential and unspeakable, released by the mention of those blank-faced soldiers. Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs akimbo, staring into the sky.
~ Donna Tartt
Hordes of people on the street, lighted Christmas trees sparkling high on penthouse balconies and complacent Christmas music floating out of shops, and weaving in and out of crowds I had a strange feeling of being already dead
~ Donna Tartt
I was having to have fun and be happy. You wanted to be dead. It's different
~ Donna Tartt
Today, perhaps, the Gate of the Dead would perform its true office for a small boy whose heritage no one knew; who had lived in squalor and perished in fright. A sacrifice to diminish the soul. A sacrifice to colour all the rest of one's days.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Miss Findlater spoke with the air of a disillusioned rake, who has sucked life's orange and found it dead sea fruit.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers