Quotes About Dead

It is natural that such a thing as a dead man's scream should give horror, for it is obviously, not a pleasing or ordinary occurrence; but I was used to similar experiences, hence suffered on this occasion only because of a particular circumstance. And

It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

He used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the power of reanimating the dead.

So talked a while with Sarr about his cats—the usual subject of conversation, especially because, now that summer's coming, they're bringing in dead things every night. Field mice, moles, shrews, birds, even a little garter snake. They don't eat them, just lay them out on the porch for the Poroths to see—sort of an offering, I guess.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before"; and the only reason his prophecy did not come true was the constitutional restraint of the nation-state, while today our only hope that it will not come true in the future is based on the constitutional restraints of the American republic plus the technological restraints of the nuclear age.

He had the bone-weary look of a survivor who wasn't so sure the dead weren't the lucky ones. He rambled back over toward Myron and unlocked the handcuffs. "Go," he said. Myron

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

This morning I, too, am in a hurry. The plumber who has reneged four times has promised that he will show up to fix the leak in our bathroom. "Mother-promise, Madam," he pronounced solemnly, when I phoned him last night. "God-promise." "Don't say that," I admonished. "If you don't come tomorrow, your mother will die." I didn't know then that his mother was already dead.

Don't mess with your memories.... only they have the power to return from the dead.

Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?… Starlight overhead— Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

And may he be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows he's dead." Standing

I'm addicted to murder, and that's about the nicest way I can put it. You might say that's not technically true, that since they're already dead I'm not really killing. Horseshit; it's murder, and it's a rush like nothing else. Sure