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Quotes About Dead

he's a maggot-eaten fool and we'll be dead because of him.
~ James Clavell
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
~ James Crumley
that all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors, or deceptions, of any human ritual.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
~ J. M. Coetzee
'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead' is one of the most underrated films. There were even different cuts of it. A wonderful film.
~ William Forsythe
Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone
~ Munia Khan
Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on.
~ T.L. Shreffler, Sora's Quest
Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.
~ Chris Kattan
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
~ Will Carleton
I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.
~ Tommy Lee
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
~ Allen Tate
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.
~ Dwight L. Moody
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
~ Homer
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
~ Langston Hughes
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
~ F. M. Powicke
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
~ Rebecca West
Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.
~ Felipe Esparza
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to be interested in writers as individuals beyond their work. To her relief no one whose books she'd read ever came to the centre, although sometimes she had to pretend to have read the writers who did. The writers could be fairly crazy, too; you had to be vigilant not to trip over their vanity or anxiety. Luckily, most of her favourites were dead. (She's the one, 151)
~ Tessa Hadley
I bussen erfar vi ofta exotiska dofter, från gorgonzola till döda ormar
~ Theodor Kallifatides
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Despair is hope stark dead, presumption is hope stark mad.
~ Thomas Adams (1583-1652)