Top 100 Dead Is Quotes
#1. For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.
Gilbert Tennent
#2. Haven't you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?" "Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too," said Rincewind. "That's the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Sometimes the way to let go of the dead is to put someone else in their place. Price
Aray Brown
#4. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.
Henry M. Morris
#5. The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
#6. One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
#7. To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
Elbert Hubbard
#8. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
James Madison
#9. The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.
Ludwig Von Mises
#10. Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
Sarah Ruhl
#11. In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.
Cameron Conaway
#12. No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest.
Neil Gaiman
#15. Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Aldous Huxley
#17. Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
Junot Diaz
#18. Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?
Beth Moore
#19. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#21. The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
Cornel West
#22. I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.
Isaac Marion
#23. Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.
David Papineau
#24. Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
Adrian McKinty
#25. The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.'
The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'
Ivor Cutler
#26. The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ's. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.
Leon Morris
#27. But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#28. THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from the moment I met her. Kelly Meding has written a phenomenal story, one that's fast-paced, gritty, and utterly addictive. Brava! More! More! More!
Jackie Morse Kessler
#29. My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. Dead is dead, we know where to file another person's extinction, but the artist purposely zoomed in on the living, or, to be more accurate, the forced-to-be-living and the soon-to-be-dead. Grainy
Gary Shteyngart
#31. Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?" she asks. "Boy who kills ghosts for a living?"
"No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don't ask why.
Kendare Blake
#32. Victorious and dead is a poor sort of victory
M.L. Stedman
#33. 'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.
Rob Sheffield
#34. The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves.
Elizabeth Crook
#36. False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.
Walter Raleigh
#37. The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Franjo Tudjman
#38. For one pleasant second I almost let the zombie do him in. Exploiting the dead is one thing I feel strongly about, but . . . stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. I
Laurell K. Hamilton
#39. Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?
Sam Lipsyte
#40. The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.
Jonathan Edwards
#41. They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep or some better place.
E. Nesbit
#42. We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
#44. You'd be surprised how far away half dead is from fully dead,
Simone Elkeles
#45. Pay attention," Gareth said to Moxie. "If it comes down to a choice of gettin' captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,
Hank Quense
#46. Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us!
Deyth Banger
#47. What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.
Samantha Shannon
#48. The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
Herman Melville
#49. Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living
Emily Bronte
#50. You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
Boyd K. Packer
#51. I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.
Nick Hornby
#52. I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
Robert Kirkman
#53. Or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter
Karen Cantwell
#54. On every show I've been on, it's just managing all the different responsibilities and time management. 'The Walking Dead' is a really well-oiled machine, and I have a great number of people who do a great number of things very well.
Scott M. Gimple
#56. There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
Penn Jillette
#57. The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.
Amy Garvey
#58. The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an evolving landscape. There are characters that die. There are characters that stay on. There are characters that go away. I love that.
Scott M. Gimple
#59. To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
Charles Dickens
#60. The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
Edmund Burke
#62. I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
Tania Raymonde
#63. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller
#65. Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
Richard Saunders
#67. What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
Gale Anne Hurd
#68. I have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, with her lion-red body, her wings of glass?
Sylvia Plath
#69. Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.
David Levithan
#70. Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you're killed by a knife in the back or a bullet?
Yoon Ha Lee
#71. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer
#72. The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#74. To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.
Margaret Atwood
#75. I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view.
Elizabeth McCracken
#76. I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
Gale Anne Hurd
#77. What's worse than dead? Is there a new ranking system in the Wilds I'm unaware of?
Donna Augustine
#78. What If dead is another riddle??
Another matrix?
Deyth Banger
#79. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
Rebecca McNutt
#80. 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
#81. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Shannon Hale
#82. 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
Serj Tankian
#84. Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.
E.J. Stevens
#85. Mourn. Get it out of your system. Because what you can do for the dead is exactly nothing. But what you can do for those still standing with you is lead.
Robert J. Crane
#87. Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.
Paul Samuelson
#88. I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.
Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
#89. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
#91. The communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living
The Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot
#92. Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.
Kevin Powers
#94. Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale
P.J. Gordon
#96. Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
#97. Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow's last act would be to cut Peeta's throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.
Suzanne Collins
#98. The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.
Ken Liu
#99. I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.
Laurie Holden
#100. To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
R.C. Sproul
