Dead Quotes

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?