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Quotes About Dead

The neighbors are scary enough when they're not dead.
~ George A. Romero
All of a sudden, a great crash sounded, and even the calm, collected Peter flinched at the noise. The closet door flew open and two small children, a girl and boy, burst out into the room. They were a ghastly sight, even to Peter's cynical eyes: the little girl had no left arm, the boy had been bleeding from a great wound in his side. Peter felt a touch of sympathy for the pathetic creatures, but then he reminded himself—they were dead!
~ George A. Romero
The truth is implicit in the statement that the gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church (Mt. 16:18). This image of the gates of the realm of the dead is a familiar Semitic concept.
~ George Eldon Ladd
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
~ George Eliot
I pointed at Ascanio. "Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sitrep?" Beside me Javier's vamp looked to the left, looked to the right, and unhinged its jaws. "The first generation of the sahanu is dead. The second generation of the sahanu is dead. The Order of Sahanu is dead. Everybody is dead." Javier paused. "Praise be to In-Shinar, the Merciful." "Stop it," I growled at him.
~ Ilona Andrews
The people around him believed that fate was tracking them down, them and their pitiable generation; but not Maurice: he knew there had been exoduses throughout history. How many people had died on this land (on land everywhere in the world), dripping with blood, fleeing the enemy, leaving cities in flames, clutching their children to their hearts: no one gave a thought to these countless dead, or pitied them.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Perhaps this 'dead' feeling was also brought on by an intensification of her old secret sorrow. Perhaps one day this sorrow might end. But she did not think it would end or see how it could end.
~ Iris Murdoch
The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
~ Irvine Welsh
I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.
~ Isaac Asimov
The stars are dying. The original star is dead. (Zee Prime)
~ Isaac Asimov
I once told Riose that not all the Empire's strength could swerve the dead hand of Hari Seldon.
~ Isaac Asimov
I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
~ Isabel Allende
no debía temer a los muertos, sino a los vivos
~ Isabel Allende
Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.
~ Isabel Allende
My grandmother claimed that space is filled with presences, the dead and the living all mixed together.
~ Isabel Allende
Se lo contó a Clara en sus cartas y ésta respondió que no debía temer a los muertos, sino a los vivos, porque a pesar de su mala fama, nunca se supo que las momias atacaran a nadie; por el contrario, eran de naturaleza más bien tímida.
~ Isabel Allende
There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid
~ Isabel Allende
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
~ George A. Romero
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.
~ Thomas Frank
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
~ Gale Anne Hurd
'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.
~ George A. Romero
Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.
~ Sharon Needles
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
~ George A. Romero