Dead Quotes

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.