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Quotes About Dead

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
~ Sean Penn
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
~ Richard Engel
We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
~ Meg Cabot
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
~ Voltaire
I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
~ Michael Chabon
people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease.
~ Michael Lewis
The deeper he got into his medical career, the more Burry felt constrained by his problems with other people in the flesh. He briefly tried to hide in pathology, where the people had the decency to be dead, but that didn't work. ("Dead people, dead parts. More dead people, more dead parts. I thought, I want something more cerebral.") He'd
~ Michael Lewis
Elric turned his face towards her, his crimson-irised eyes burning with a strange emotion. He put a hand to his dead white skin and a crooked smile twisted his lips. "I, too, have felt as you do," he said quietly.
~ Michael Moorcock
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
~ Diane Kruger
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
~ Ben Savage
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.
~ Yasmine Galenorn, Witchling
Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
~ Lord Byron
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
~ Bill Bryson
There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know.
~ Bob Mayer
Hold on," Moms said, processing the information. "You're saying he should have been dead based on your analysis, but he was still alive. And alive enough to attack us?" "Yes.
~ Bob Mayer
It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.
~ Susanna Clarke
If ever I find your remains I will bring you offerings of food and drink. If it seems to me that no one living is caring for you then I will gather up your bones and bring them to my own Halls. I will put you in good order and lay you with my own Dead. Then you will not be alone.
~ Susanna Clarke
And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
~ Susanna Kaysen
My mother smiled. I know my baby wasn't like that. I looked at her. Like what? Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital. She paused. I knew you'd decide to be all right again.
~ Sylvia Plath
My mother smiled. I knew my baby wasn't like that. I looked at her. Like what? Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital. She paused. I knew you'd decide to be all right again.
~ Sylvia Plath
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
~ Sylvia Plath
On Fridays the little children come To trade their hooks for hands. Dead men leave eyes for others. Love is the uniform of my bald nurse. Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. The vase, reconstructed, houses The elusive rose. Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows. My mendings itch. There is nothing to do. I shall be good as new.
~ Sylvia Plath
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T.S. Eliot