Dead Quotes

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

Rather be dead than cool.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.