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Quotes About Dead

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
~ Homer
Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
~ Jeaniene Frost
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
~ John Dyer
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
~ Courtney Love
I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks
~ Lil Wayne
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
~ Dwight Yoakam
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.
~ Herman E. Daly
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
~ Brian Wilson
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
~ Henry Beston
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD
~ Shannon Hale
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
~ Lucretius
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
~ Andrew Jackson
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.
~ Samuel Beckett
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
~ George Santayana
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
~ Jim Carroll
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
~ Cecil Day-Lewis
The cliche is dead poetry.
~ Gerald Brenan
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
~ Mark Twain
I donÂ't think thereÂ's anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.
~ Ric Flair
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
~ Aldous Huxley
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
~ James Russell Lowell
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~ General Oliver Prince Smith