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Quotes About Dead

I have dogs at home in Ohio, so it's always nice to see them and just be a lump and collect dog hair and dead skin cells.
~ Patti Harrison
I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. You would fancy she was looking for dead things.
~ Oscar Wilde
We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
~ Oscar Wilde
Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
~ Oscar Wilde
No, as far as I am concerned, let your wife cherish the memory of this dead, stainless mother.  Why should I interfere with her illusions? 
~ Oscar Wilde
And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And
~ Oscar Wilde
How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful.
~ Oscar Wilde
zoey: Holy crap, Aphrodite! Could you not sneak up and scare me? Aphrodite: No one was sneaking and holy crap is that a curse? Cause if it is i'm afraid i'm going to have to wake up the potty mouth police and have them make an arrest. So Stark's not dead yet. Zoey:Gosh, thanks for the update. You just made me feel so much better. Aphrodite:Don't be a pain in my ass while i'm trying to be nice.
~ P.C. Cast
In the circles in which I move it is pretty generally recognized that I am a resilient sort of bimbo, and in circumstances where others might crack beneath the strain, may frequently be seen rising on stepping-stones of my dead self to higher things.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
That's what I meant when I said that about the cheek of Woman as a sex. What I mean is, after what had happened, you'd have thought she would have preferred to let the dead past bury its dead, and all that sort of thing, what?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Little birds are messengers, they carry secrets of the dead to the living..
~ Pamela Anderson
Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread? I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead man. All right. I'm just going to do a wee one about Bunny and then I'll join you. Always creeping around telling tales and stealing people's tights! How can anyone be that scrofulous and live? Now if somebody bumped him off, that would make sense.
~ Pamela Branch
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on a suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg.
~ Pat Barker
So Agamemnon fears the dead? Well there are plenty of them to fear - young men with all their lives ahead of them do not go down into the darkness reconciled.
~ Pat Barker
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
~ Pat Conroy
Thus looked at from outside, these guests --in this dead-and-alive dining room, of this dead-and-alive house, of this dead-and-alive street, of this dead-and-alive little town--in grey, dead winter of the deadliest part of the most deadly war in history--thus seen from a detached point of view, they presented an extraordinary spectacle.
~ Patrick Hamilton
head. "The Core has devised a parasitic, organic device called the cruciform," she said. "It Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brings back Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the dead. After a few generations, the humans will be retarded, listless, and without a future, but their neurons will still serve Core purposes." Singh
~ Dan Simmons
Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?
~ Daniel Handler
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.
~ Joseph Goebbels
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.
~ Marcel Proust
And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest. In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.
~ Wendell Berry