Top 100 Dead Quotes
#2. It is seriously creepy when you receive a friend request from a dead friend in social media asking you to accept.
M.F. Moonzajer
#3. If you're not changing, evolving with the times, there's a pretty good chance that you're stagnant, dying, already dead, or just a rock in someone's shoe.
Ray Palla
#4. I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.
Rebecca West
#5. My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#6. Now I know what you're saying. You're saying: 'Dave, you have painted a distorted and inaccurate picture of the American health-care system. Not all patients wind up being as wretched as Mary! Many of them wind up being dead'.
Dave Barry
#7. An eight-pound Cheddar. No one can resist a bit of Cheddar cheese, ma'am. Not even the dead.
Julia Stuart
#8. She lives between the Vale of Kashmir & nirvana, beneath a bipolar sky. The voice speaks of an atlas & a mask, a map of Punjab, an ugly scar from college days on her abdomen, the unsaid credo, but I still can't make the voice say, Look, I'm sorry. I've been dead for a long time.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#9. If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan
#11. That wouldn't be a first, now would it?"
"Jean."
"Jean Grey is dead, Agent."
"Yeah, that'll last.
Joss Whedon
#12. Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He's not dead, you fools. Legends never die.
A.G. Howard
#13. A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick.
Nicole McKay
#14. You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead
Brandon Sanderson
#15. Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you ... God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.
Tessa Dare
#16. One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead
William R. Trotter
#17. Sleep erases all differences: then and now; dead and living. I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. This morning I caught sight of my face in the bathroom mirror. I am paperskinned, gauned, yellow, ring-eyed, hait matted. I look dead. I want nothing.
Audrey Niffenegger
#19. A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead.
Marty Rubin
#20. The thing I love about you the most, is that when you're sleeping, I can imagine what you will look like when you're dead.
Julieanne Lynch
#21. Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.
Michio Kaku
#22. Better be with the dead,
Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.
William Shakespeare
#23. Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. George Lucas, go fuck yourself. I hope you're dead. I hope a fuckin' zombie busted in your house and knocked over your golden Yoda statue right onto your once creative head. These movies are terrible." An
Forbes West
#25. The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead
David Bowie
#27. He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It's the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he's an accountant and works at a place downtown. He's really dead?" "Well," says Manny, "I didn't check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.
Stephen Dobyns
#28. I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk
#29. Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing
Karen Marie Moning
#31. Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
Mike Nichols
#32. Memories are not dead things, but alive; they dwindle in disuse, but they harden and develop in all sorts of queer ways if they are being continually fretted.
H.G.Wells
#33. But perhaps it's that Grey is dead. It still feels like the moon fell out of the sky.
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
#35. The mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, it is he who is dead and not I.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
Tony Curtis
#37. Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Marie Laurencin
#38. The Envisagers were gone. Dead, because of what he had done. If there were others, he had no idea how to locate them.
Brandon Sanderson
#39. I walked out and I got a standing ovation from all these people, and it's like a creepy thing ... either you've become a cultural icon, or they are applauding the fact that you are not dead yet.
Neil Gaiman
#41. She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'
'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
Donna Thorland
#42. I would greatly prefer it if you didn't put a bullet into my brain; it would complicate my plans for life, most of which involve not being dead.
Seanan McGuire
#43. What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#45. Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!
Margaret Walker
#46. Simon blurted, "Can I put the dead hand in my blood?"
"May I put the dead hand in my blood," Adele corrected. "Yes, go ahead.
Clay Griffith
#47. That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.
Jose Saramago
#48. The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.
Dennis Prager
#49. The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.
Richard Kadrey
#50. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
#51. on the fool's trip to save Paul. And for what? My fucking friend and his wife were dead. Maybe they would have been able to ride the damn thing out in their attic. Couldn't be worse, that's for sure. So we had potentially only forestalled my son's death and theirs.
Mark Tufo
#53. Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
Wilfred Burchett
#54. No, it was you losing the little golden sun killed me, Shadow, killed me dead as sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end." Shadow
Neil Gaiman
#55. Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?
William Faulkner
#56. We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead
Jane Austen
#57. I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends among the dead hold it back until you have passed by.
John O'Donohue
#58. In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon.
- al'Lan Mandragoran
Robert Jordan
#59. I kill the living to make way for the dead.
But we had hot chocolate, she and I. We tried to make our friendship last as long as we could.
Then I was forced to let her go. I held her when she returned to the earth.
R.A. Parry
#60. Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
Casey Stengel
#61. Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Death
is living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory over
death and not many will taste of it. - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane
Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
#62. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world ... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
Abraham Lincoln
#63. Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Stephen King
#64. How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
#66. Go outside occasionally to smoke a cigarette. It's a good way to make friends, it makes you look cool, and you're already dead on the inside, anyway.
Thought Catalog
#67. Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
Mary Karr
#68. The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.
A. M. Rosenthal
#69. I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#71. This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
Brent Weeks
#72. When he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.
Zachary Schomburg
#73. As fewer of us are struck dead out of the blue, most of us will spend significant periods of our lives too reduced and debilitated to live independently.
Atul Gawande
#74. The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
#76. Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites.
David James Duncan
#77. The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
David Souter
#78. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.
Thomm Quackenbush
#79. I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.
Emilie Autumn
#80. They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
Ben Schwalb
#81. I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.
Julianne Hough
#82. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.
Julia Cameron
#83. If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.
Graham Hancock
#84. I'm a live wire in a dead world,
Eyedea
#85. I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'
Michael Easton
#86. Everyone has a story with coca-cola people like Wayne Dyer even and people like Alan Rickman and many other people, so... they are dead so you can take it Coca-Cola is part of the history!
Deyth Banger
#87. The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those at the top. On a ladder, most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.
Sheryl Sandberg
#88. Death ... " The voice dropped even more, black-gloved hands disappearing into the black folds of material. "Don't you feel it? We're all dead here ... all ... very ... dead.
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#89. The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone ... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.
Cheshire Cat
#90. He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done.
Eddie Joyce
#91. Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#92. But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?
I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.
He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.
We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#93. I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
Socrates
#94. The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.
Ilona Andrews
#95. Often children came in with minor colds or coughs or diarrhea and then suddenly, they were dead.
Barbara Demick
#96. I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.
Amy LaPalme
#97. See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
Gordon Lightfoot
#98. I love the dead ... Frequently.
Necro
#99. I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
#100. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead
Katherine Boo
