Dead Quotes

I am one of the crucified dead.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Everything is dead while it lives.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

Woman absent is woman dead.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

I was dead inside.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.