Dead Quotes

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

In the long run we are all dead.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.