Top 100 I Am Dead Quotes
#1. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
Plutarch
#2. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
Hilary Mantel
#3. Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.
Elizabeth Chase Allen
#4. Great; I get to be told I am dead all over again.
-Stomfur
Erin Hunter
#5. If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
Henry Fox
#6. 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
#7. I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
Conn Iggulden
#8. When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
Edward Everett
#9. (D.L. Moody, who said in his dying days)In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before.
Karen Kingsbury
#10. My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. I know it.
Sabaa Tahir
#11. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. I will never remember anything
I know how to forget and forgive
Life has turned into miracle,now
I know, when I am dead
Nobody would remember me,
they all will forget
I am an immortal soul
I will forgive them, all
Shapeshifting in wind of change.
Santosh Kalwar
#14. If I am dead, well, then there's somethin' 'bout you, Eleanor, that's makin' me feel like I'm still alive.
Tabitha Freeman
#15. Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
David Crockett
#17. When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Otto Preminger
#19. No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
William Shakespeare
#20. After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato The Elder
#21. Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die.
William Shakespeare
#22. I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
Mark Twain
#23. I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
#25. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa
Alexander McCall Smith
#26. But I am dead certain
ba-dump-bump-ching
that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side ... and had them start off screaming, BOO!
Jim Butcher
#27. I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau
#28. If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
Charles Bukowski
#29. 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
#30. When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.
Gustave Courbet
#31. I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
Harvey Cox
#32. If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
Diogenes
#34. I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
Terry Goodkind
#35. Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it.
H.L. Stephens
#36. When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.
Juliette Drouet
#37. When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.
Flora Thompson
#38. Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Charles Bukowski
#39. I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
#40. After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
King George V
#41. My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that Mr. Collins, who seems always eager to talk of Heaven, may be dispatched there by a horde of zombies before I am dead.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#42. When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner
#43. I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
Sylvia Plath
#44. To my son,
If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
Cassandra Clare
#45. Truly," he said, "I am dead ... I'm dead, and I'm going to Hell ... " "Hush," said Lyra, "we'll go together.
Philip Pullman
#46. I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
Roger McGough
#47. But something. Something has died. Isn't there now. I can't paint.' There are tears in her voice but none in her eyes. 'I am dead inside'.
Keri Hulme
#48. You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Euripides
#51. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.
Sue Monk Kidd
#52. I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.
Marguerite Duras
#53. It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.
Carew Papritz
#54. It's an important skill to know when not to say anything. It's not a skill that came naturally to me then, nor does it come naturally now, nor do I expect it to come naturally to me until I am dead, when I will be very, very good at it.
Lemony Snicket
#55. The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
Nikola Tesla
#56. I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.
Henry Williamson
#57. I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard Shaw
#58. I do not restrain desire Until my desire is satisfied Or until my body touches hers, Or my soul from my body goes. When I am dead, open my tomb, You will see my heart on fire And my shroud in smoke.
Khushwant Singh
#59. Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.
Gavin Douglas
#60. This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#61. Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone?
Terence Jackson
#62. The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#63. I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
Rudyard Kipling
#64. I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
Albert Einstein
#65. I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.
Isaac Marion
#66. I may do some good before I am dead
be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Thomas Hardy
#67. Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull ...
Heinrich Heine
#68. People think I am dead because they haven't seen me around for awhile. I'm not dead, I'm very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don't smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton
#70. My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.
Shilpa Shetty
#71. I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first."
"Of course you may go first. When I am dead.
Nalini Singh
#72. Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
#73. I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.
Margaret Atwood
#74. Some day ... after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#75. You're a terrible man for the blankets, said Kerrigan.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I love my bed, said Byrne. She was my first friend ... She will house me in my last hour and faithfully hold my cold body when I am dead. She will look bereaved when I am gone.
Flann O'Brien
#77. I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#78. I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
Michael Caine
#79. Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North
Jim Harrison
#80. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#81. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
#82. After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.
Joseph Beuys
#83. My mommy told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My sister told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me
That rubber dolly
Now I am dead
And in my grave
And there beside me
A rubber dolly
Tracy Chevalier
#84. Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not.
Deyth Banger
#86. Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
Gaston Leroux
#87. I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer
#88. When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama? ... When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.
Alexei Nikolaevich
#89. Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.
Gaston Leroux
#90. I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
John Lennon
#93. Crow shrugged. "What is death? The loss of a body? The loss of the animating spark? If that's the case, I am dead.
"Or is life the persistence of memory and emotion, volition and desire?" Crow went on, as if in a debate with himself. "If that's the case, I am very much alive.
Cinda Williams Chima
#94. Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#95. I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#96. When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.
Muriel Rukeyser
#97. When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.
Suetonius
#98. When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
Madeline Miller
#99. I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead ... Tis well.
George Washington
#100. But I've caught it already. I am dead - I've been dead for months and months.
Edith Wharton
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