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Quotes About Dead

Sev, feeling embarrassed by his reaction, examined the bones. The left arm came off in his hand. "Yep, he's dead all right." Scorch sucked his teeth noisily. It was extra-amplified in the scuba trooper helmets. "Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?" "Nah, I'm prepared to go out on a limb.
~ Karen Traviss
Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside.
~ Karin Slaughter
The office looked the same as it had been the day before. Claire sat down at the desk. She hesitated as she reached out to tap the keyboard. This was a red pill/blue pill moment. Did she really want to know if there were more files? Paul was dead now. What was the point?
~ Karin Slaughter
You were wrong," she told Paul, because he had been a pedantic asshole who thought he was right about everything. "You said I would be dead in a gutter by now. You said I was worthless. You said that no one would believe me because I didn't matter.
~ Karin Slaughter
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
~ R. C. Sproul
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
~ Clarence Darrow
History is littered with dead good men
~ Joe Abercrombie
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?
~ Conrad Aiken
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.
~ David Petraeus
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
~ Ellen Terry
Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.
~ Erma Bombeck
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
~ George Eliot
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
~ George R. R. Martin
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
~ Henry Ward Beecher