Dead Quotes

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?

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

God is dead!

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

For the dead there are no more toils.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.