Top 100 Already Dead Quotes
#1. His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were.
John Le Carre
#2. Word on the streets of Chicago in 1963 was that if Chuck Nicoletti got a contract with your name on it, you were already dead-- you just didn't know it yet.
Richard Belzer And David Wayne
#3. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#4. We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our enemies are already dead. They fight only out of hate and that will be their weakness.
Erin Hunter
#5. Whoever is devoid of the capacity of wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
Albert Einstein
#6. If you stop chasing your dream, you're already dead.
Steve Mazan
#7. My wife had only been dead for a few months, and already random ass women were trying to fill her shoes.
Jessica N. Watkins
#8. I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
Barry Eisler
#9. Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
C.S. Lewis
#10. If looks could kill ... well, Dick was already dead, so nothing would happen. But Gabriel was not laughing.
"See Dick," Dick said, pointing at his chest. He then swept his hand dangerously close to mind. "Jane. Dick and Jane. Come on, you humorless jackass. That's funny.
Molly Harper
#11. YOU LET ME DROWN!" Owen said. "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I'M ALREADY DEAD!" he told us. "REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
John Irving
#13. Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.
Jeanette Winterson
#14. A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
Carlos Castaneda
#15. Dying is a process. Dead means you've already arrived at your destination.
Alison G. Bailey
#16. The role of artists is to attend the funerals. They are the pall-bearers of failure, and every wonder they raise high in celebration harks back to a time already dead.
Steven Erikson
#17. [ ... ] I'll fucking kill them all. Every single one of them."
Corrado's voice rang out beside them. "Too late. They're all already dead."
Carmine glared at his uncle. "Well, we'll bring those motherfuckers back to life then.
J.M. Darhower
#18. Maybe I was just being paranoid. But that's the thing about the game. If you weren't paranoid, you were dead already.
Allison Van Diepen
#19. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.
Katherine Applegate
#20. What did it feel like to die? Was it a peaceful sleep? Some thought it was full of either trumpet-blowing angels or angry devils. Perhaps I was already dead.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#21. But disasters are made of paper. You make a decision or two, then walk in to them like you would a harmless corner store, and soon they're behind you, on the enormous pile of dead and harmless disasters that once had you worried sick.
The sky has fallen a thousand times already.
David Cain
#22. She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.
Marcel Proust
#23. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
#24. We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Jeff Bridges
#25. Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
Gautama Buddha
#26. Here you lie in the tremendous web. Others are about you, but they are whole - whole hearts and bodies. But all of you that lives is back there walking the desolate seas in evening winds. This thing here, this cold clay thing, is already dead.
Ray Bradbury
#27. Life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. if you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already
James Frey
#28. Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
Nadine Gordimer
#29. The living reduce the dead to those who have lived; yet the dead already include the living in their own great collective.
John Berger
#30. I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.
James Ransone
#31. Perhaps, for each of them, I also resembled someone who was dead. I had barely arrived at Adelma and I was already one of them, I had gone over to their side, absorbed in that kaleidescope of eyes, wrinkles, grimaces.
Italo Calvino
#32. Commitment in relationship, has today resurrected into an experienced Goliath, in a land where David is already dead and buried. Show me anyone who may be willing to face the new experienced Goliath?
Francis Otieno
#33. There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.
William Goldman
#36. I'm addicted to murder, and that's about the nicest way I can put it. You might say that's not technically true, that since they're already dead I'm not really killing. Horseshit; it's murder, and it's a rush like nothing else. Sure,
Max Brooks
#37. What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.
Stefanie Schneider
#38. First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.
Niccolo Tucci
#39. They feed you."
"I eat people. They don't give me people to eat. They give me animals. That's barbaric. At least people have a fighting chance to get away. The animals they give me are already dead. It's sickening, that's what it is."
"Annis, you're a unique individual.
Derek Landy
#40. Don't," she said to her brother.
"What?"
"Don't act like I'm dead already. I, for one, am not giving up.
Melissa De La Cruz
#42. The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead
Alan Dean Foster
#43. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)
Anonymous
#44. You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.
Megan McCafferty
#45. I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
Penn Jillette
#46. Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
Gautama Buddha
#47. There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.
Carol Morgan
#48. In her prison gown, she looked like a ghost. Something already dead that hadn't stopped moving yet. Which, he figured, might be accurate.
James S.A. Corey
#49. The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the grave; and she would not let herself be strangled by the hands of the dead. "I'm going, Ma," she said. "I got to go.
James Baldwin
#50. I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.
Aisha Tyler
#51. I'd love to see the Iron Jackal's face when he finds out I'm already dead," he said with half a grin. "Now that's irony." "No it ain't, Cap'n. It's just some shit that happened.
Chris Wooding
#52. If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you will go after you're dead
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#53. We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?
Sharon Stone
#54. If you've bullshitted me, angel, I'm going to kill you."
The other male rolled his eyes. "I'm already dead, idiot.
J.R. Ward
#55. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.
Gabby Bess
#56. It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
Ally Carter
#57. I'm sorry," the groundskeeper said. "Usually the kharhn we feed to the kingsflower are already dead. I never get to see anything live fed to it. This is exciting for me.
John Scalzi
#58. Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal.
Like I'm dead already.
Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
"We are the choices we make, Todd," the Mayor says. "Nothing more, nothing less.
Patrick Ness
#59. It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.
And I'm not a satellite. I'm space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him.
Nicola Yoon
#60. I tell you what's really ridiculous
going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
Thom Yorke
#61. I am terrified by the dizzying pleasure of it: I am both here and over there; I am be and I am no longer me!
Am I already dead?
Shan Sa
#62. Han struggled to remember Master Leontus's lectures on healing, the recitations he'd drowsed through. I'll never have need of that, Han had thought. I'm being trained to kill people, not heal them. He'd thought everyone he'd ever want to heal was already dead.
He'd been wrong.
Cinda Williams Chima
#63. He was already in hell, already dead as far as he was concerned. Do your worst, you evil bitch.
Donna Grant
#64. When I'm done, I contemplate lying down in the middle of the road to let a car finish me off. I'm already half-dead.
Lindsey Leavitt
#65. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#66. It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.
Ruta Sepetys
#68. Praised be I, writing, dead already and
dead again
Jack Kerouac
#69. Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.
Fran Lebowitz
#70. When he died, I think she did, too, it just took longer time for her body to realize her heart and mind were already dead.
Jasinda Wilder
#71. Believe me, Kelley. If I'm not ... it's because I'm already dead." He stroked her hair, and she could feel his breath warm on her forehead, like a kiss. "Because anyone that would seek to hurt you would have to kill me first.
Lesley Livingston
#72. If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#73. I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.
Yasmine Bleeth
#74. For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.
Rebecca Solnit
#75. Just 'cause I'm a vampire, doesn't mean I'm into the Goth scene."
"Yeah. I suppose that makes sense," I reason. "Like why go around dressing in black and wishing you were dead, when technically you already are."
He grins. "Exactly.
Mari Mancusi
#76. Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.
"Don't bother," Esrahaddon told them. "She's dead, and there's nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It - "
The two were out the door.
Michael J. Sullivan
#77. I actually come from comics, and I'm big on comics. I was reading 'Walking Dead' from the beginning. Then just being on the show, I was really lucky to work on episodes like 'Pretty Much Dead Already' and 'Clear.' I worked a lot on episodes that I didn't write.
Scott M. Gimple
#78. One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#79. Woe, woe, woe ... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
Raymond Chandler
#80. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows he's fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because he's dead. So technically I'm better than Galileo because all I've done is take a shower and already I've accomplished more than him today.
Jenny Lawson
#81. The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
#82. It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape from the house." My limbs go weak, everything inside me folding in collapsing on itself.
"I was already dead," he says, opening his eyes.
Carrie Ryan
#83. Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things ... In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.
Vivian Vande Velde
#84. She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her.
Walter Kirn
#85. I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we're actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them.
James Lee Burke
#86. I'm sure that I've already been dead.
Edith Piaf
#87. Well, it is a crypt. In the philosophical sense. All old buildings become crypts the moment they're finished. A shrine to a time that's already dead.
Krystal Sutherland
#88. You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
Markus Zusak
#89. Lucas went even paler. "Then you're on the track to suicide," he whispered. "Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You're already dead.
Lilith Saintcrow
#90. Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.
James Wright
#91. The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...
Assegid Habtewold
#92. They taught me that inhibitions would kill me. Hit early, hit hard. Kill with the first blow. Get your retaliation in first. Cheat. The gentlemen who behaved decently weren't there to train anybody. They were already dead.
Lee Child
#93. rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.
Patricia Cornwell
#94. I am already dead inside. But I will finish what I have to do.
Oliver Bowden
#95. To destroy the need to learn, this is the best thing to do: to gone feeling that you already know. Then there's no question of learning, no need to become a disciple. You are satisfied, in your grave. You are dead.
Osho
#96. Even the stars we see
are only a kind of memory,
already dead for years.
Peter Goldsworthy
#97. Well, killing da already scientifically dead is not murder.
We hav a slang term por it...
Dobol dead.
Geonard Yleana
#98. The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#99. you don't sell your soul to the devil unless part of you is already a little dead inside.
Clarisse Thorn
