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Quotes About Dead

There is a moment when the dead man, too, cancels further revision of the impure. Thus, the dead man is a postscript to closure. The dead man is also a form of circular reasoning, the resident tautologist in an oval universe that is robin's-egg-blue to future generations. Perhaps it's so not important that the dead man lives. After all, the dead man deserts the future.
~ Marvin Bell
Aztecs had not only failed to repress the eating of enemy dead, they were practicing a state-sponsored form of human sacrifice and cannibalism on a scale never rivaled before or since.
~ Marvin Harris
Andy: Look at our love fern! It's dead! Ben: No it's only sleeping.
~ Kate Hudson
Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.
~ Unknown
Hungry dragons may sleep for years, but they do not change their eating habits. He must be found. The dead demand justice, as do the living.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I am no believer in visions or omens. After all, I would sooner fancy that I was dreaming - dreaming with my eyes open as I stood at the window - than that I beheld the shadows of the dead.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Justice to the dead first," he said; "mercy to the living afterward.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
my grandfather laid claim to all the virtues. Vice was the only thing left to me." Clare scowled at him. "The old earl has been dead for four years, and you're a grown man. Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.
~ Mary Jo Putney
What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.
~ Mary Renault
Las sombras son pasadizos hacia el mundo de la noche, del invierno, el país de los muertos
~ Mathias Malzieu
Look at that chessboard we put back in place", said Mrs Elm, soflty. "Look at how ordered and safe and peaceful it looks now, before a game starts. It´s a beautiful thing. But it is boring. It is dead. And yet the moment you make a move on that board, things change. Things begin to get more chaotic. And that chaos builds with every single move you make.
~ Matt Haig
Warm Don't worry about being cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Life is warmth. You'll be cool when you're dead. Head for the warm people. Head for life. Dream
~ Matt Haig
Yes. The cat guy. He said that in quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once. In the same place. Quantum superposition. The cat in the box is both alive and dead. You could open the box and see that it was alive or dead, that's how it goes, but in one sense, even after the box is open, the cat is still both alive and dead.
~ Matt Haig
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead.
~ Unknown
He called him by his name, no doubt, but the divine historian thought not fit to record it, for, because he refused to raise up the name of the dead, he deserved not to have his name preserved to future ages in this history. Providence
~ Matthew Henry
The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
~ Matthew McGrory
Confession is a swimming against the stream. Now many may swim with the stream, like the dead fish, that cannot swim against the stream, with the living fish. Many may profess Christ, that cannot confess Christ; and so, notwithstanding their profession, yet are but almost Christians.
~ Unknown
The mother/daughter relationship and the separation from the mother is so complex that in most women's literature and fairy tales the mother remains absent, dead, or villainous.
~ Maureen Murdock
By her anguish; she made the sacrifice, full of strangeness, of her certainty that she existed, in order to give a sense to this nothingness of love which she had become. and thus, deep within her, already sealed, already dead, the most profound passion came to be.
~ Maurice Blanchot
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
~ Maurice Sendak
Fear is flooding over me, like water. The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life.
~ Meša Selimovi?
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
~ Meg Cabot
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.
~ Melissa Marr