Dead Quotes

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

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.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.