Dead Quotes

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.