Top 100 Dead People Quotes
#1. All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
Claudia Gray
#2. Piper, we don't kill people. Even when there are dead people lying around us.
Martha
#3. Life is some kind of a terminal disease, otherwise, why do we have more dead people than alive?
Boris Zubry
#4. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.
Dennis Miller
#6. I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#7. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
Paul Craig Roberts
#8. Remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?
John Green
#9. A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."
- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title)
G.R. Matthews
#10. A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.
Mark Twain
#11. Dead people, dead ideas and supposedly dead moments are never really dead and they shape every moment of our lives. We ignore them and this makes them powerful.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#12. There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.
Andrew Davidson
#13. Alice's face widens in horror. I left my candy Coture bag on the table!' 'Oh, the tragedy! Smitty joins in, girlying it up. The dead people might be ... touching it!
Kirsty McKay
#14. But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
Alasdair Gray
#15. But that's the thing about dead people: they can't warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.
LynDee Walker
#16. She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die
John Green
#17. I'm not going to make a big deal about a few tummy flutters because ... dead people, old people, even furniture would get butterflies if they met this guy.
Anne Eliot
#18. Fortunately, by the time I'd gotten to the stairs I had finished gasping and stepping on dead people, so I was pretty prepared for the next thing to startle me out of my skin.
April White
#19. That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.
Nhat Hanh
#20. We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil.
Amy Plum
#21. In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.
Dan Barker
#22. There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
Deborah Mailman
#23. Oh my god," I said, but I couldn't help but laugh. "You can't make jokes about eating dead people if you actually eat dead people.
Kali Wallace
#24. Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
Darynda Jones
#25. There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.
Trey Anastasio
#26. In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.
Amy Efaw
#28. Listen.
Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school. You know where you're coming from and you're always returning from it. You know where you're going though you never seem to get there and you're just dead. Dead.
Marlon James
#29. I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.
Louis C.K.
#30. Why do people always get named after dead people? If they have to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas, which never really die, not even bad ones?
Nicole Krauss
#32. I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.
Donna Lynn Hope
#34. I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
George Noory
#35. The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#36. Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
Cory Doctorow
#37. Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All those little doses of emotion.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."
SARK
#39. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.
John Berendt
#40. This is your grave."
"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."
"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious.
Otsuichi
#41. I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.
Doug Stanhope
#42. All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
David Bailey
#43. Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara)
Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. You totally need to watch the news."
"Can't."
"Why?"
"It's too depressing."
"Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.
Darynda Jones
#45. We are all in trouble ... with a bunch of dead people.
Neal Stephenson
#46. I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
Charles Dickens
#47. People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.
John Avery
#48. I may be a composite of multiple dead people, but I'm not stupid.
Seanan McGuire
#49. But what about all those dead people we saw? Maybe they rescued us for real, got killed, and now we're screwed. Maybe we were supposed to do something, but now it's all been messed up and we've been left here to die.
James Dashner
#50. Although it may appear as though there have been many miracles in the world, a true miracle has never come to pass. A true miracle is when falseness is made into Truth, and when dead people are made real so that they are born and can live. Only this is a true miracle.
Woo Myung
#52. I'm more afraid of the living. Dead people can't rape me. There's
Mya Robarts
#53. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
#54. No dead people beyond this door,' " he read aloud from beyond the door. " 'And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.
Darynda Jones
#55. I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. People do not just die. I can't catch my breath.
John Green
#56. Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
Nate Lowman
#57. That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer - real, two-way conversation with God - makes any difference. If
Dallas Willard
#58. 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
#59. I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
John Maeda
#60. I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)
Alane Ferguson
#61. 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
#62. I think it's funny how people say what dead people would want, as if they would know.
Peter Monn
#63. The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky Loebel
#64. Isn't it weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#65. Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people.
Terry Goodkind
#66. She sees ghosts," said Samuel, impatient with my whining.
"I see dead people," I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn't thought he'd be a moviegoer.
Patricia Briggs
#67. I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
#68. So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones.
Mary Hooper
#69. No, Simi. No food. (Acheron)
No, Simi. No food. The Simi don't like this, akri. Katoteros is boring. There's nothing fun there. Only old dead people who want to come back here. Bleh! (Simi)
Simi ... (Acheron)
I hear and obey, akri. The Simi just never said she would do so quietly. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I am sorry", until its as meaningless as air.
Audrey Niffenegger
#71. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#72. I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
Patricia Briggs
#73. Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable.
Myra McEntire
#74. ... dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless as air.
Audrey Niffenegger
#75. A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are."
"But there aren't any dead people here today."
Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own.
Meljean Brook
#76. Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!
Tennessee Williams
#77. I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
John Green
#78. One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
Daniel J. Goor
#79. Only dead people need loud music, you know.
Alice Walker
#82. She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter.
Ray Bradbury
#83. I live my life among the remains of dead people.
Milton Jon
#84. I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?
Kevin Garnett
#85. Let's accept it that dead people are in position for relaxing and watching.
Deyth Banger
#86. I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
Dean Koontz
#87. When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.
Allan Dare Pearce
#88. Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people.
Stephanie Perkins
#89. That is because you don't see enough dead people, Hardcastle. If you saw more corpses you would realise that, while life is ridiculous, death is more ridiculous still. Be
A.J. MacKenzie
#90. I don't know how long I lay there, with the arms of dead people holding me.
Rick Yancey
#92. I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's not that much really. Our existence as a species on earth has been so short. We forget that.
Douglas Coupland
#93. Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
Laurence Overmire
#94. A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
Alexander McCall Smith
#95. I've been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it floats through the last light of day.
Samantha Hunt
#96. I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
Ted Danson
#97. All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.
Deborah Harkness
#98. Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
Rebecca McNutt
#99. I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
William Boyd
#100. So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested.
"Uh ... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?"
"How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?"
Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense."
"No, I don't see dead people. It's different.
Lauren Conrad
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