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Quotes About Dead

Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.
~ Louis MacNeice
Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.
~ Louise Penny
And then he remembered. And lost her again, the island drifting farther out to sea. For Robert Mongeau there would always be a before and an after. All events would henceforth be dated from Sylvie alive and Sylvie dead.
~ Louise Penny
You'd be surprised. Not everything buried is actually dead,
~ Louise Penny
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
~ Louise Penny
Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.
~ Unknown
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
~ Unknown
Once more do I warn thee,' answered the old man with undisturbed composure, "Wake not the dead" — let her rest.' 'Aye, but not in the cold grave: she shall rather rest on this bosom which burns with eagerness to clasp her.
~ Ludwig Tieck
the dead still obey the laws of physics, don't they?
~ Unknown
Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk--I am as good as dead already.
~ Joe Meno
The most reliable way of determining what a word in a dead language means is to see how the word is used in context. Once
~ Unknown
It is in the forms of the living that the dead most convincingly haunt us.
~ John Banville
He that wandereth out of the way of knowledge, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
~ John Bunyan
Do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
~ Chaim Herzog
Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
~ William Shakespeare
There's no privacy for the violently dead.
~ zelda popkin
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
~ Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening
~ The Band Perry
You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave
~ Munia Khan
My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living.
~ Renee Ruin, Wounds: Volume 1
Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.
~ Unknown
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.
~ Unknown
It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.
~ Ryan Graudin, Invictus