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Quotes About Dead

Men who fall in battle against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.
~ George R.R. Martin
Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.
~ George Whitefield
If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
~ Georges Bernanos
The cliche is dead poetry.
~ Gerald Brenan
I'm reminded of the story of the village idiot whose antique watch stopped running. He pried it open and found a dead cockroach inside. "No wonder it doesn't work," he said, "the manager is dead.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
~ Walt Whitman
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
~ James Russell Lowell
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
~ Vita SackvilleWest
April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
~ T. S. Eliot
The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies? Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.
~ J.D. Robb
That's perfect, isn't it? I'm sex and money; you're dead bodies. What a team we are . Best to stick with our strengths.
~ J.D. Robb
The dirty red light was flashing. Over and over through the window. SEX! LIVE! SEX! LIVE! She was only eight, but her mind was quick. She wondered if people would pay to see dead sex.
~ J.D. Robb
Minute by minute, then hour by hour, then day by day. Work is solace, he said, friends are comfort. Life is for the living. You and I know that, even though we spend so much time with the dead - maybe because of that we know we have to live. Chale has been a great help to me. That's good, she said, thinking of the priest she'd suggested Morris talk to. You can ... you know, anytime. Yes. His lips curved. I know. You're work, and a friend, so have been both solace and comfort.
~ J.D. Robb
The dead cannot be cheated, cannot be betrayed, unless you carry them with you in your heart and do the crime there.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.
~ J.R. Ward
I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.
~ J.R. Ward
This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.
~ J.R. Ward
If anyone ever wanted to sense the infinity of time and existence, all they had to do was look at the night sky and feel their precious dead staring back at them. It was the great duality of union and separation.
~ J.R. Ward
He absolutely was a coward. A weak coward whose dead had not been avenged, who had no voice, and whose body was nothing even a ten-year-old would envy.
~ J.R. Ward
Apex? The male with the dead stare and the bad past walked in with a bored expression on his face—and a severed hand… in his hand? The vampire lifted the body part. "I borrowed this from one of the guards. After we're done getting you out, I'm going to slap him with it. Assuming he hasn't bled out.
~ J.R. Ward
Emma Thompson, ca. Sense and Sensibility: You must cease and desist all such lustful thoughts, you beast. Emma Stone, ca. Zombieland: Over your dead body. Julia Roberts, ca. Pretty Woman: Big mistake. Huge. Cardi B, in any situation: Bitch, please. All of those worked. Unfortunately, what was more likely to come out of her mouth was straight-up Jennifer Lawrence: I volunteer as tribute.
~ J.R. Ward
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
~ Uwe Boll
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn.
~ Will Self