Dead Quotes
Hollywood Undead
I look alive. I'm dead inside. My heart has holes, and black blood flows.
4560 Lady Gaga
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
2795 Simona Panova
Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –
1402 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.
1539 Evan Meekins
Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.
2907 Simona Panova
The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...
Dead silence.
Literally dead.
3640 Hannah Kilfoyle
The sun leaves me to silence
Before my eyes adjust
My ears are tuned for violence
My jaw begins to rust
His words wrap all about me
And heavy as they seem
They do not feel as filthy
As leaving them in dreams
1081 Michael Bassey Johnson
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
1213 Simona Panova
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
3968 John Green
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
4783 Samuel Beckett
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
4232 Doug Dorst
What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.
1231 Charles Bukowski
I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.
4462 Munia Khan
Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy
2087 Neil Gaiman
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
2726 K-Ske Hasegawa
Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?
1624 Mother Jones
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
4691 Yiyun Li
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
3993 Amanda Ashley
That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.
1852 Amanda Ashley
You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?
2886 Derek Landy
Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.
3376 Rachel Vincent
...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
2409 Jeanette Winterson
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
4071 Wilfred Owen
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
3905 Ana Monnar
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.
1278 Amy Tintera
You smell so good,"
"No, I don't, I smell like death."
"You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death."
"I was dead a long time."
"And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.
1694 Thomas Pynchon
As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
4259 Thomm Quackenbush
She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.
4176 Shannon Celebi
Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.
3915 Ryan Dobson
Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved.
1684 Jane Goodall
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
2699 Charles De Leusse
Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, - Mais pas l'espoir !)
4683 Richard Matheson
Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?
His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.
3138 George Eliot
O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...
3529 Ray Bradbury
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...
4263 Lailah Gifty Akita
The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.
4574 Carew Papritz
It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.
1393 Marcel Theroux
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
3099 Richard Matheson
Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!
3995 Mercedes Lackey
How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.
4533 Anthony Liccione
She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.
3380 Munia Khan
The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death
1604 Sanhita Baruah
After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.
1250 Sharad Vivek Sagar
It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.
2412 Olaf Stapledon
With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.
1889 Munia Khan
You don’t need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave
4347 Aaron B. Powell
I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.
1117 Margaret Atwood
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.
3406 Robert J.A. Gilbert
A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.
4628 LeAnne Mechelle
I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love.
4861 Arundhati Roy
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
2545 Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
1220 Stéphane Audeguy
One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.
1505 Charles De Leusse
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
3095 Primo Levi
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
2044 Hugh Howey
Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story - the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.
1621 George R.R. Martin
The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
1731 Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to live. And if the war managed only to separate the living from the dead, then the new regime, arriving in its wake, would sooner or later pit them against each other as enemies.
2765 Jandy Nelson
Y hay que ver, esos libros sobre el duelo son una
mierda, todos iguales, una porquería total al cien por cien.
1210 Judith Merkle Riley
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon.
"Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.
2489 Jennifer Niven
For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.
4242 Mary E. Pearson
It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
2655 Donna Tartt
The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star...
3668 Michael Bassey Johnson
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.
1916 Shannon Celebi
Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.
4677 Rachel Van Dyken
Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.
3404 Jeaniene Frost
There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away.
4274 John Green
Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.
1876 Tia Artemis
I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you’ll see walking around the streets.
3571 Tim Burton
Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
3213 William Lloyd Garrison
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
4612 Aniruddha Sastikar
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.
4903 V.C. Andrews
Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
4943 Karen Quan
Life is great, and without it, you'd be dead.
1838 Marcel Proust
So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!
2842 Ricky Maye
In all of your living don’t forget to live.
3875 N.H. Kleinbaum
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
3814 George Orwell
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
2556 Rick Yancey
And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead
3824 Suzanne Collins
Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
3019 Gerald Morris
I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.
3957 Simona Panova
So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –
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