Deader Than Quotes

#1. There's nothing deader than a dead love.

Leona Helmsley

#2. Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

D.H. Lawrence

#3. A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Billy Corgan

#4. My fishing hole is deader than ... a dead thing that's dead.

Tom Riley

#5. I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

Ann Everett

#6. I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

Derek Landy

#7. For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.

Chris Priestley

#8. There are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Ed Zern

#9. I'm Irish! ... When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

Morgan Llywelyn

#10. He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

Scott Adams

#11. I pissed away over ten million dollars
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I'm back

Al Jourgensen

#12. You promise?"
"I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Derek Landy

#13. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.

Laurence Gonzales

#14. Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

David Thornley

#15. Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Edward Abbey

#16. Deader than four o'clock.

Hunter Murphy

#17. Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.

Arthur C. Clarke

#18. There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better.

S. S. Van Dine

#19. You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

Laura E. Richards

#20. Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.

William T. Vollmann

#21. The deader your gospel, the flashier your package. Smoke and subwoofers can never do what one glimpse of Christ crucified can do.

J.D. Greear

#22. Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.

Dashiell Hammett

#23. He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

Howard Browne

#24. Latin is already a dead language, man ... don't make it any deader.

Jerry Scott

#25. She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#26. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.

E. M. Bounds

#27. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.

Sinclair Lewis

#28. What's the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don't get any deader.

David Harry

#29. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

Terry Pratchett

#30. The deader the ball, the better it suited her purpose, which was to whack the shit out of it until she was physically exhausted. She thought this was quite possibly the most satisfying thing she'd ever done.

Jonathan Franzen

#31. ELVIS & MARILYN:
The deader they get -
the more money they make.

Chocolate Waters

#32. A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

Brent Weeks

#33. Simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

James Woods

#34. There is a Russian proverb,' Nepeja said. 'Beat your shuba, and it will be warmer; beat your wife and she shall be sweeter.'

There was a brief silence, while his hearers considered the analogy. 'Beat your brother and he shall be deader?' at length Danny said.

Dorothy Dunnett

#35. He's dead, then?" said Ridmark, the cold healing magic spreading through him. "He's a burned corpse with a soulblade stuck in his chest," said Gavin. "I suppose he could be deader, but it's hard to see how."

Jonathan Moeller