Dead Quotes

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.