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Quotes About Dead

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
~ Brenda Perlin
Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed
~ Munia Khan
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
~ Nancy Mitford
Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
~ Nathanael West
Life, for a human being, is a constant process of thought, of motion, of purpose, of achievement; it is not the state of merely not being dead.
~ Nathaniel Branden
It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.
~ Neal Shusterman
The poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead.
~ Charles Bernstein
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
~ Charles Bukowski
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game - it was corpse fucking corpse.
~ Charles Bukowski
god, love is more strange than numerals more strange than grass on fire more strange than the dead body of a child drowned in the bottom of a tub, we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.
~ Charles Bukowski
Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
~ Charles Bukowski
but I see the resentments of the dead are eternal.
~ Charles Lamb
In his house," intoned the congregation, "He shall return, that dead lies dreaming.
~ Charles Stross
In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbors and made merry. He always said that whenever he saw a dead man's mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one's lifetime. Unoka was, of course, a debtor, and he owed every neighbor some money, from a few cowries to quite substantial amounts.
~ Chinua Achebe
You can repair anything but dead. You can't fix that. So you bury the dead an move on.
~ Chris Bohjalian
You can repair anything but dead. You can't fix that
~ Chris Bohjalian
I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.
~ Hirokazu Kore-eda
You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.
~ James Patterson
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Most people say about graveyards: Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy. But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
~ Tim Burton
But in a story, which is a type of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
~ Tim O'Brien
They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came
~ Tim O'Brien