Top 100 Dead Who Quotes
#1. We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
Amy Poehler
#3. I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.
James Watson
#4. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
#5. It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.
Louis De Bernieres
#6. With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors' barely contained enthusiasm.
Roberto Bolano
#7. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)
Anonymous
#8. Here was a place sacred to the dead, who were not the living ceased, but almost another species, requiring rites and prayers that belonged uniquely to them.
Clive Barker
#9. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#10. Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!
Anchee Min
#11. He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Horace
#12. If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?
Satoshi Kon
#13. What did Plato say?" "He said, 'It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.'" "And
Elizabeth Hunter
#14. There are some dead who are more alive than the living.
Romain Rolland
#15. It is not the dead who are to be feared, I thought, but rather the living. Only the living can cast you down among the dead.
Alan Bradley
#16. For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
E. M. Forster
#17. He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck
#18. The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me
I have no others.
Thomas Bernhard
#19. And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Joe Abercrombie
#20. When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.
Freddie Mercury
#21. You have heard tales of necromancers,' she said, 'who fish for the spirits of the dead. Do you know there are vivimancers among the dead, who call to them those who can make them live again?
Gene Wolfe
#22. In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.
Fede Alvarez
#23. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
George Eliot
#24. Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Walter Scott
#26. Life is only fair for the Dead, who get what they want because they want nothing.
Isaac Marion
#27. Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
Shiv Khera
#28. Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of men isolated with their fate.
Albert Camus
#29. I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.
Edwidge Danticat
#30. He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
Mary Shelley
#31. All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin's corpse hall. What
Bernard Cornwell
#32. Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent ... I'll drink instead!
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
Rosie O'Donnell
#35. To the lucky dead who will not be feeling this hangover tomorrow.
Kurtis J. Wiebe
#36. When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
#37. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
#38. Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
Thomas Heywood
#39. Life is for the living, not the dead, who belong to the past and are at peace and beyond all further pain and suffering 'somewhere in the great somewhere
Daphne Sheldrick
#40. It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.
Plato
#41. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.
Harper Lee
#42. How fortunate, then, that we serve a God who quickens the dead. Who breathes life into the lifeless. Do you not think that a God who formed man out of dust can form a new creation in you?
Roseanna M. White
#43. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W.B.Yeats
#44. I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Alexander Haig
#45. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2
Mark Batterson
#46. Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
Bob Latta
#47. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee - and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast ... if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story.
Liam Perrin
#49. In this city [Palermo] ... it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children ... We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.
Gianni Riotta
#50. And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.
Julian Grenfell
#52. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.
Mira Grant
#53. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
Robert W. Service
#54. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
#55. Across a sea of asphalt and cars, was where I caught my first glimpse of the woman who would do the impossible and awaken a long dead part of me.
K.I. Lynn
#56. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#58. You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?
Melina Marchetta
#59. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
H. Rider Haggard
#60. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.
Adrian Phoenix
#61. Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you'll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.
Nelson DeMille
#62. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
Arsene Wenger
#63. I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything.
A.L. Jackson
#64. Only the dead do not need wisdom; none who are living can survive without it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.
Gregory Maguire
#66. This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.
Tahereh Mafi
#67. The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!
Ravi Zacharias
#68. Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.
Anthony Doerr
#69. Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall
just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
John Le Carre
#70. The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.
Douglas Coupland
#71. I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn't smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.
Karen Chance
#72. Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
T.H. White
#73. A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten
#74. The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
Charles Bukowski
#75. The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.
Joel Garreau
#76. It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
Robert Townsend
#77. There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen Hawking
#78. Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth.
Octavia E. Butler
#79. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk
#80. It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
Jane Austen
#83. 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
#84. Wasn't there a tribe in Africa that lashed the dead body to the back of the one who had murdered it? That would certainly be justice - to carry the rotting corpse around as a physical burden as well as public shame and damnation.
Toni Morrison
#85. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
Gladys Taber
#86. For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.
Zack W. Van
#88. Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.
C.E. Murphy
#89. We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan Rickman
#90. You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.
Patricia Briggs
#91. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
John Wesley
#92. The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Warren Farrell
#93. And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.
Veena Sud
#94. When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.
William Goldman
#95. In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.
Damian Wampler
#96. Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
Rabbie Burns
#97. When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
Sandy Fussell
#99. Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Edmund Burke
#100. There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us
these are just the hazards of being free.
David Foster Wallace
