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Quotes About Dead

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
~ T.S. Eliot
the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living--The Little Gidding
~ T.S. Eliot
the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T.S. Eliot
And the eye adjusts itself to a twilight Where the dead stone is seen to be batrachian, The aphyllous branch ophidian.
~ T.S. Eliot
If the devil's work out here among the stars has a face, it is the handsome, narrow-chinned visage of Keeta Januari, leader of the Rationalists. And if God ever wanted someone dead, she is that person.
~ Tad Williams
What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu
~ Tad Williams
Civilians had a tendency to fetishize military dead without ever considering how and why they died.
~ Tanya Huff
Keep your words. This pain is no life. You only feel pain because you're alive, boy! the keeper thundered. This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
~ Ted Dekker
Yes, I drank some of the ancient blood and it changed me. If I'm right...If the vellum is right, the world is dead. Everyone! But I was brought back to life by the blood.
~ Ted Dekker
where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there's only death
~ Ted Hughes
The Cataboeans are all right. They believe some truly weird stuff. They believe that they're the only people on earth, and all the other anthropoid entities they meet are the spirits of the dead.
~ K.J. Parker
Grief was the deal God struck with the angel of death, who wanted an unpassable river to separate the living from the dead; grief the bridge that would allow the dead to flit among the living, their footsteps overheard, their laughter around the corner, their posture recognizable in the bodies of strangers you would follow down the street, willing them to never turn around.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.
~ Suzy Menkes
I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'
~ Katherine Kelly
Nothing, you coward. You think you can lecture me on responsibility? Leon, my life might be pathetic, but you? You're dead already.' Anawak replayed the words in his mind. 'Yes,' he said slowly. 'You're right.' He got up. 'But thanks for saving my life.
~ Frank Schätzing
A sparrow limps past on its little bone crutch saying I am Frederico Garcia Lorca risen from the dead–
~ Franz Wright
Holding a live chicken sounds disgusting." "Better than holding a dead one.
~ Brandon Mull
When did you get so peppy?" she shouted. "Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't." "Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!
~ Brandon Sanderson
So," Marasi said, "you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—" "Don't try," Waxillium said. "Logic doesn't work on Wayne." "I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller," Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You're an odd one, son." "The normal ones are dead in the chasms, sir.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Wayne shrugged. "Guess anytime I find a corpse and it ain't my fault they're dead, I feel a little relieved.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A good fight was about momentum . Don't stop. Don't think. Drive forward and convince your enemies that they're as good as dead already. That way, they'll fight you less as you send them to their pyres.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What proof do we have? The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory?
~ Brandon Sanderson
When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.
~ Brennan Manning