Dead Quotes

The dead governs the living.

Thug Life to me is dead.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

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

War would end if the dead could return.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.