Top 100 Dead Men 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. I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Wovoka
#3. Where are your books? - that light bequeathed
To beings else forlorn and blind!
Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed
From dead men to their kind.
William Wordsworth
#5. Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
Jeaniene Frost
#6. What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu
Tad Williams
#7. We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
Harriet Tubman
#8. It was just before dawn during the Great Big Siege of Bologna, when tongueless dead men peopled the night hours like living ghosts and Hungry Joe was half out of his mind with anxiety because he had finished his missions
Joseph Heller
#9. How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?"
Mikel smiled, and it was a beautiful smile. "One tree at a time," He said.
Jo Graham
#10. Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
John Heywood
#11. That was the trouble with pride, and courage, and all those clench-jawed virtues bards love to harp on. The more you have, the more likely you are to end up bottom in a pile of dead men.
Joe Abercrombie
#12. The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#15. The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten
George Orwell
#17. She walked, her hand trailing the ghosts of yesterdays'
Dead Men Don't Kill
Viveca Benoir
#18. All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral - and queer.
Derek McCormack
#19. Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?"
"Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs.
"What about all these dead men?" she shrieked after him as they strode out of her house.
"Those you may keep," Kennit replied.
Robin Hobb
#20. They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and
look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men are everywhere. There are only people in the world, and all around them is silence
that's what the earth is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
Israel Zangwill
#22. Peace
We passed their graves:
The dead men there,
Winners or losers,
Did not care.
In the dark
They could not see
Who had gained
The victory.
Langston Hughes
#23. Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. Should we change our name?" Saracen asked. "The Dead People, perhaps?"
"The Dead Non-Gender-Specific Persons?" Vex suggested.
"Dead Men and a Girl? Dead Men and a Little Lady?
Derek Landy
#27. His hands were cold as ice, but he saved us from the dead men, him and his ravens, and he brought us here on his elk." "His elk?" said Bran, wonderstruck. "His elk?" said Meera, startled. "His ravens?" said Jojen. "Hodor?" said Hodor.
Anonymous
#28. Even corpses had purpose, or could be given one. A man could make himself an island his entire life, only to have reason itself laid about him, a fabricated existence. Identity became relative, history nonexistent. As they said, dead men told no tales.
Chris Galford
#29. Nothing is worth anything to dead men.
Arya
#30. Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
Wilfred Owen
#32. A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#33. The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?
George Whitefield
#34. Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.
Erwin McManus
#35. The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce knows, but its power will arise and the Circle will close.
Kerstin Gier
#36. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.
A.W. Tozer
#37. Outlaws or poachers, makes no matter. Dead men make poor company.
George R R Martin
#38. Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
Neil Gaiman
#39. Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.
Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.
Zachary Jernigan
#42. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
#43. War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
Nellie L. McClung
#45. Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
Hermann Bahr
#48. There's no more foolish proverb than the one which says that dead men tell no tales. To help dead men to find their tongues is one of the chief uses of the Law.
Hope Mirrlees
#49. What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
Charles Dickens
#50. Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
D.H. Lawrence
#52. What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway,
#54. I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.
Wladimir Klitschko
#55. We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.
Justin Martyr
#56. It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! ... Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#57. Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
Cass McCombs
#58. Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#62. Books are the true metempsychosis,
they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
Henry Ward Beecher
#63. He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.
George R R Martin
#64. Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.
George R R Martin
#65. It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
Michael Feldman
#66. There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.
Charlie LeDuff
#67. I am now about to enter on my normal condition. For people are almost always in their graves. When we survey the long race of men, it is strange and still more strange to find that they are mainly dead men, who have scarcely ever been otherwise.
Thomas Hardy
#70. Dead men would start and move
toward me to learn of love.
Hilda Doolittle
#71. Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
Bob Dylan
#72. While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.
Douglas Preston
#73. A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
Leonard Ravenhill
#75. At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
Ernst Toller
#76. Nights spent on mountains are not to be recommended. Nights where the dark is full of the sounds of dead men trying to climb up to where you're shivering under thin blankets, less so.
Mark Lawrence
#77. I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
Robert E. Howard
#78. You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly
Jack London
#79. And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
John Dyer
#80. Long-dead men leered at them from heavy gilt frames and Eliza thought how ghastly it must be to have one's portrait painted, to sit still for so long, all so that a layer of oneself could be left forever on a canvas,
Kate Morton
#81. Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
R.C. Sproul
#82. By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled ...
Nothing of this sort happened.
B.M. Bower
#83. Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. As the dead men reached the top of the Wall he sent them down to die again.
George R R Martin
#84. A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse things than dead men. A dark time comes.
Mark Lawrence
#85. A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.
Felipe Esparza
#86. Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
John Henry Patterson
#89. The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
Raymond Chandler
#90. I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
T. S. Eliot
#91. The coin turns; where it falls, nobody knows.
The coin turns, empires rise and empires fall, men live and men die, babies scream and dead men sigh; the world changes but people are always and are never the same.
Claire North
#92. One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#93. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#94. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views - amen, so be it. And
Robert Louis Stevenson
#95. And in an age when the girls were clearly gaining the upper hand on men in the Battle of the Sexes, men could do with some help from Pet Spirits & Dead Men's Oil.
For unlike Milesians, Malesians could not send girls to be sacrificed to the Gods.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#97. Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance.
George R R Martin
#98. Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
George Horace Lorimer
#99. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#100. They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
