Top 41 Dead Can Dance Quotes
#1. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.
Stephen Richards
#2. Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
Rachel Caine
#4. Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside.
Karin Slaughter
#5. Science can make the legs of a dead frog dance by running electricity through them. But that doesn't mean dead frogs like to dance.
Carlos Hernandez
#6. London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.
Jeff Beck
#8. The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.
Gwen Raverat
#9. I am waiting to write the poem that is something like a dance movie, the ones populated by fair haired ballerinas with just a little bit of singe to their tulle, not quite as dark as the Natalie Portman one, but girls woefully misunderstood by their parents or harboring dead mothers and sad pasts.
Kristy Bowen
#10. Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That's what the dead would tell the living, if they could - to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
Claudia Gray
#11. They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance.
Neil Gaiman
#12. I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
Rachel Caine
#13. Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
Carl Sandburg
#14. Shane's dad said, "I should have left you in the damn cage to fry, you ungrateful little bastard. You're no son of mine."
"Hallelujah," Shane said softly. Free at last.
Rachel Caine
#15. Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.
Rachel Caine
#16. Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.
Ethel Smyth
#17. I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
Charles Dance
#18. You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so ... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
Kenny Wormald
#19. After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
Jessica Raine
#20. With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?
Rumi
#21. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.
Mary Roach
#22. The Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death.
Neil Gaiman
#23. He said, "Dance for me," and he said,
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,
"I'm a poor tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead.
Sidney Keyes
#24. If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a ... lot of cardio just from being a parent.
Hugh Jackman
#25. I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.
John Barlow
#26. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.
Benjamin Harrison
#27. To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.
Ray Bradbury
#28. When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead.
Molly Harper
#29. Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The
Philippa Gregory
#30. When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.
Friedrich Schiller
#32. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
Nora Roberts
#33. The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
Mahalia Jackson
#34. Scientists have reported that elephants grieve their dead, monkeys perceive injustice and cockatoos like to dance to the music of the Backstreet Boys.
Hal Herzog
#35. The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
Bill Walton
#36. Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!
Rachel Caine
#37. We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves.
Marty Rubin
#38. He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all.
Rachel Caine
#39. The Soviets made me change Romeo and Juliet so that it would have a happy ending, a barbarism, because living people can dance, but the dead cannot dance lying down.
Sergey Prokofiev
#40. That's two full days away. Maybe, if I'm not dead by then, I can still take Sophie.
Leslea Wahl
#41. And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests
disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.
David Sedaris
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