Dead Quotes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

In the long run we are all dead.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.