Top 100 Alive Dead Quotes
#2. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Terry Pratchett
#3. The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?
Diet Eman
#4. She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble.
Pamela Branch
#5. In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.
William C. Brown
#6. But you men ... you're all alike. Alive, dead, undead - all perverts! I had a drunken pervert in my pants! Do you know how unsanitary that is?
Jeaniene Frost
#7. But Eva was not dead, he was not allowed to grieve. And she was not alive, so he could not hope. Nothing.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#8. Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
Billy Graham
#9. Because I am from Terrasen and believed my queen dead. And now she is alive, and fighting, so I will fight with her. So that no other girls will be taken from their homes and brought to Morath and forgotten.
Sarah J. Maas
#10. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
#11. The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made
may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner
forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep
us locked in inner conflict.
Christopher Alexander
#14. It's how we know we're alive," ginger said. "We grieve the dead.
Amber Dermont
#15. Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
George Orwell
#16. What's with the zombie craze? Zombies are half alive, half dead, right? Sounds like my wife in bed.
Jarod Kintz
#17. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.
Nafisa Haji
#18. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!
Deyth Banger
#21. I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.
Gayle Forman
#22. You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent
Andrew Davidson
#23. Isn't it better to die while you're alive than to live the life of a dead person?
Emmanuel Carrere
#24. The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.
Andy Warhol
#26. You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?"
Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it.
Kim Harrison
#27. I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. And
George R R Martin
#28. It's a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics.
Kitty Thomas
#29. Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.
Kate Atkinson
#30. Of course she was bloody found dead." Moore grumbled. "Some bastard cut off her head and her limbs. If she'd been found alive I would have been more than bloody surprised.
Sarah Pinborough
#31. What is a ghost?
Something dead
that seems to be alive.
Something dead
that doesn't know it's dead.
Richard Siken
#32. I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#33. We had tasted what it was like being dead. We had rolled it around in our mouths and swallowed it and now the stink from it was coming from us. We weren't all right. We would have to learn to be alive again.
Walter Dean Myers
#34. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#35. Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
Idries Shah
#36. If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.
Stephen King
#37. A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.
Havelock Ellis
#39. Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat ... or a girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#40. Funny how we'll do things for people after they're dead that we wouldn't do for them while they're still alive.
John G. Hemry
#41. Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
E. Stanley Jones
#42. I dreamed of you and a dead dragon, Egg's brother Daeron said to him. A great beast, huge, with wings so large they could cover this meadow. It had fallen on top of you, but you were alive and the dragon was dead.
And so he was, poor Baelor. Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build.
George R R Martin
#43. They have so smothered me in their middle-class refinement that I don't know how there can be any blood left in my veins. I lowered my eyes, put on a dismal, silly expression, just like them; I was just as dead-and-alive as they were.
Emile Zola
#44. Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead."
"I have new batteries in.
Cate Tiernan
#45. I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.
Matt Haig
#46. Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.
Frank Pittman
#47. I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed ... !) dead or alive ...
Ward Churchill
#48. I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.
Helen And Scott Nearing
#49. When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
#50. Tim Russert is dead. But the room was alive. You can't work it too hard at a memorial service, obviously. It's the kind of thing people notice.
Mark Leibovich
#51. If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie
not really dead but not really alive, either.
Cassandra Clare
#52. I say, then, that mortification is the work of believers, and believers only. To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. 2.
John Owen
#53. Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
Mira Grant
#54. Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn't want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.
Terry Pratchett
#55. Moe Berg. Until he's finished reading a paper, he considers it 'alive' and refuses to let anyone else touch it. When he's done, it's 'dead' and anybody can read it. Says he wants to integrate everything from various papers, get a picture - every day." "Then
Gregory Benford
#56. It doesn't matter if you're alive or dead. It matters what was said to leave an everlasting impression on society.
Jay G Rich
#57. Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to burn him, make sure he's dead. Because if he's alive, he will talk: talk in written form, on the printed, permanent page.
Philip K. Dick
#59. Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. We should not weep for the arriving soul - It isn't dead. We should weep instead for the one whose body is alive, but whose soul is dead because of its alienation from that which gives it life: God.
Yasmin Mogahed
#61. The fact that we once knew each other in Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, and that we were both still alive and ambulatory, was a miracle in itself. Where we came from he's dead was as common a phrase as he's sick or he's saved. People died in our world with appalling regularity.
Walter Mosley
#62. I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.
Sally Brampton
#63. We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate ... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#65. Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.
Zig Ziglar
#66. I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time.
- Rose
J. Yates
#67. You'll move if I say so," Hap said. "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church." "Only so long as he alive," I said. "For if the husband be dead the wife is loosed from his law. Says so in Romans.
Hillary Jordan
#68. I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
Rumi
#69. He's not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.
Paullina Simons
#70. Ghosts! - They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.
Arthur Schnitzler
#71. I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
Vincent Van Gogh
#72. The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.
Clotaire Rapaille
#73. Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.
Alister MacKenzie
#74. You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
Joe Biden
#75. Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
Philip Kapleau
#76. We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest. - Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#77. In sum, it is not good to let the hand or the sword become fixed or frozen.87 A fixed hand is a dead hand; a hand that does not become fixed is alive. It is necessary to master this well.
Miyamoto Musashi
#78. Casy said solemnly, This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter ...
John Steinbeck
#79. A man counted only because he had a prison number. One literally became a number: dead or alive - that was unimportant; the life of a "number" was completely irrelevant.
Viktor E. Frankl
#80. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.
Peter Hoeg
#81. Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#82. I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.
Anne Meara
#84. When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.
Tony Horwitz
#85. Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
Richard Saunders
#86. The sudden pounding in her chest, the trembling of her hands, the inflation of her lungs. It was exactly like being alive. It was reanimating the dead.
Abbie Chandler
#87. What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.
Richard Rodriguez
#88. Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.
Isabella Bird
#89. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.
Marya Hornbacher
#90. What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences?
Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#91. i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
Jodi Picoult
#92. When I saw the photograph I realized for the first time why the obituaries had so disturbed me.
I had allowed other people to think he was dead.
I had allowed him to be buried alive.
Joan Didion
#93. Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.
Richard Armour
#94. Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your nose in her hair, breathe her in deeply. Say her name. It will always be her name. Not even death can steal it. Same alive as dead, always. Aura Estrada.
Francisco Goldman
#96. One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
Meghan O'Rourke
#97. Dear, if you are dead or alive, I will still love you no matter what.
Graham Earl
#98. I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing, but
Bernard Cornwell
#99. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.
Graham Gardner
#100. I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
Charles Dickens
