Top 100 Quotes About Be Dead
#1. There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.
Robert Edmond Jones
#2. How do ou feel about your prophesied destiny? Imust know, if I am to compose this epic."
"Feel?" Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo moving among the tents. How many of them would be dead before he was done? "Tired. I feel tired.
Robert Jordan
#3. [To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
Dorothea Dix
#4. Numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be dead not to feel a vigorous stirring for a man so incredibly handsome as her wandering polecat.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
MacDonald Harris
#7. He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.
Rhys Ifans
#11. Upon seeing the third and final table I realized that most of the people listed would most likely be dead, or come out of these qualifying races with severed limbs of as Revaarn liked to say 'Loose a limb no problem, it'll be amputated and replaced with a robotic one.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#13. Soon this would just be who I was. Soon old me would be dead too. I tipped my head against the cold glass of the window. When I felt myself begin to cry, I didn't fight against it. And when I caught my refection in the dark window, I wasn't able to tell what was tears and what was rain.
Morgan Matson
#14. She'd say amazing things sometimes. "Once you're alive," she'd say, "you cant ever be dead.
Tim O'Brien
#15. My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless. If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well.
John Bunyan
#16. I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
John Fowles
#17. He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes...
Chris Culver
#18. He said, "Yefrem! Stop griping. Take this book and read it."
Yefrem stopped short, and looked at it dully.
"What for? Why read, when we'll all be dead soon?"
Ogloyed's scar twitched.
"That's exactly why you have to hurry, because you'll soon be dead.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#19. All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.
Meg Cabot
#20. So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
George Carlin
#21. The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.
Gwen Raverat
#22. No. No. No. I couldn't be dead. I hadn't even brushed my teeth, for crying out loud. There
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#23. There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt
#24. There's no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I'll be dead. And I live, in quotation marks, in my children, in my DNA, in my books, in my reputation. It's as simple as that.
Edwin S. Shneidman
#25. Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.
Christopher Moore
#27. That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. That. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead -
Cassandra Clare
#28. Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.
John Zakour
#29. My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed
Munia Khan
#30. I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?
Jess C. Scott
#31. Therefore, you might end up, like be dead, with still having that notion of 'not giving up' in your mind.
Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
#32. Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's ... it's more than we could hope for!
Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.
Suzanne Collins
#33. You're supposed to be dead. Her whisper was lost in the sound of a gunshot.
Aimee Duffy
#34. There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.
Danny Trejo
#35. I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.
Douglas Coupland
#36. He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#37. Tetapi aku mempunyai kesadaran yang teguh, bahwa let the dead, be dead. There are man and women so lonely. They believe, god is now we.
Soe Hok Gie
#38. I didn't think I would see you here again, Ms. Prior," she says.
"Is that because I'm supposed to be dead?" I say.
"I always expect those who live by the gun to die by it. I am often pleasantly surprised.
Veronica Roth
#39. One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
Rita Mae Brown
#41. God knows I'm not intelligent otherwise I'd be dead
Samuel Beckett
#42. Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
Michelle Franklin
#43. Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
Megan Boyle
#44. Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.
Mike Love
#46. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino
Tom Walsh
#47. But what Desmond didn't tell you is
by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.
Darren Shan
#48. Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?"
"I'd be dead if it wasn't."
"yes. I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personsal confidence
Peter F. Hamilton
#49. How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.
Kate Grenville
#50. Jason," Piper said. "The original Jason. But then you're - you should be dead!
Rick Riordan
#51. ...There's not one way to to live or to love, and whoever tries to tell you any different will probably be dead in a decade or two anyway, so screw them!
Santino Hassell
#52. You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
Chuck Palahniuk
#53. The damned bitch has questions to answer. So she better not be dead. She can save that for when we've done.
Shehanne Moore
#54. I'm not bloodthirsty, but ... seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.
Melissa Marr
#55. I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.
Peter Steele
#56. The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.
Holly Black
#57. He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.
Robbie Coltraine
#58. It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
John Forbes Nash
#59. Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed
Munia Khan
#60. Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
David Copperfield
#61. 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
#62. Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. If you did that I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be dead.
Charles Reid
#64. You don't listen do you? Go away." ... "You don't listen," he said.
Why wouldn't he just leave? I was going to burn up, anyway, with fire creeping up my arms to consume me. My eyes ached with fresh tears. I hated crying.
"But if you listened," he murmured, "I'd be dead.
Jodi Meadows
#65. I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Joshua Logan
#66. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat
#67. Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.
Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River.
Roarke: Chattahoochee
Eve: What's the difference?
Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think.
J.D. Robb
#68. Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head
Munia Khan
#69. When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
Robert Herrick
#70. My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Edward Abbey
#71. I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
Robbie Robertson
#72. Eric: if Sookie had died, I would let you suffer.
Bill: if Sookie had died, I would already be dead.
Charlaine Harris
#73. I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
Kurt Sutter
#74. If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb ...
Socrates
#76. I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#78. But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.
Martin Fletcher
#79. Facing fear is better than running from it," he said.
"What if it's fear you can't beat?"
"Then it might be better to be dead," he answered.
David Baldacci
#80. Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!
Carl Jung
#81. History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#82. You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.
Ferran Adria
#83. I wondered again if I might not actually be dead-if this was some terrible version of death, which I had momentarily mistaken for a continuation of life.
Elizabeth Kostova
#84. Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.
Ned Vizzini
#85. We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Douglas Coupland
#86. F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.
Maurice Sendak
#87. I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.
Lewis Black
#88. The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.
Shane McAnally
#89. I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
Grace Jones
#90. Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then?
W. Somerset Maugham
#91. To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Christopher Lee
#92. All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.
Neal Stephenson
#93. Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
Hannah
#94. The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.
Cassandra Clare
#95. Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#96. This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
Nalini Singh
#98. I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.
Ingrid Bergman
#99. Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
Gyles Brandreth
#100. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie
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