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Quotes About Dead

They listen, the dead. They're always listening. What else is there for them to do?
~ John Connolly
A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover.
~ John Connolly
Come on," I said a third time, to the approaching darkness, to the figures that beckoned from within it, to the peace that comes at last to every dead thing.
~ John Connolly
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. —Andrew Wyeth (1917
~ John Connolly
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist. [Letter to Max Otto]
~ John Dewey
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
~ Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
~ William Wordsworth
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The severe defeat and collapse of time and life define such a context that you receive nothing, except self-harming and self-disgrace; indeed, it is a task of fools and morally dead ones.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
All the details of my life were in exact order and yet I was tumbling in them-out of order like a tremendous wave had hit me and I was thrown off the ship and I awoke or dreaming, or dead I knew not-no I couldn't speak.
~ Eileen Myles
The Moon is a dead rock—eighty-one quintillion tons
~ Anthony O'Neill
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
~ Archibald MacLeish
For Silas, Lichport was only a name, like that of a distant cousin or a dead relative he'd never met. Familiar but abstract.
~ Ari Berk
The Arenos felt that their silent bayou, their buried kin, their dead trees were forgotten, like the female half of the Nuer. Coming
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
~ Arthur Baer
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
~ John Lanchester
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
~ Thomas Dewar
My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.
~ Charo
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
~ Eric Idle
Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.
~ Sheamus
I started working at Airtight Games after I shipped 'Left 4 Dead 2' back in 2009.
~ Kim Swift
Everyone agrees. The dead singers have the best voices. At four o'clock in the morning the dead singers have the best voices.
~ Franz Wright
Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.
~ Fred Chappell