Top 100 Quotes About The Dead
#1. The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.
Tasha Alexander
#2. The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star ...
Donna Tartt
#4. The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
#5. Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead.
Gillian Flynn
#6. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.
Henry M. Morris
#7. This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
Mitch Albom
#9. The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around ... it will ooze out over the earth ... and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#11. You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good ... Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Bette Davis
#12. Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
Roger Scruton
#13. The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
Haruki Murakami
#14. The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...
Peter Heller
#15. Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
Chief Joseph
#16. The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets ... these are the great unknowns. They will be debated as long as their is life. I think there's an inherent interest from people in what that stuff is.
James Roday
#17. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
#18. The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.
Kerri Maniscalco
#19. I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial
Oscar Wilde
#20. The dead clay makes no protest.
Sophocles
#21. Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.
Robert M. Edsel
#22. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.
Lauren DeStefano
#24. You are the snowstorm- I'm purified, the darkest fairy tale in the dead of night.
Gabrielle Aplin
#25. Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
Robert Jordan
#26. Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.
Graham Joyce
#27. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.
Mark Hart
#28. No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
Sophocles
#29. Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead.
Brian Spellman
#30. It is June. I am tired of being brave.
from "The Truth The Dead Know
Anne Sexton
#31. The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#32. The snow fell straight and slow, adding another layer to the drifts and covering roads, trees, bushes, and bodies, the living and the dead as one beneath its veil.
John Connolly
#33. The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
Thomas Aquinas
#34. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
#35. Once our idea of heaven meant
all the dead relatives waiting
on the kept lawn of the many mansions
as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing
to do ...
Deborah Digges
#36. The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
Kate Mosse
#37. For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
Henry Van Dyke
#38. She said something equivalent to 'over my dead body.' To which your father deadpanned, I don't sleep with the dead.
Amanda Carlson
#39. This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home.
Barbara Kingsolver
#40. Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
Michael Simkins
#42. Max had said two things to Jean during their good-byes. First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes--and then begin to tell their story. "Remain silent about the dead, and they'll never leave you in peace.
Nina George
#43. I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
Kate Braverman
#44. It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.
Robert Hayden
#45. As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
Dwight L. Moody
#46. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead ... While you do not know life, how can you know about death
Confucius
#47. Well if it isn't little miss 'Call Me Maybe' back from the dead.
Faith Sullivan
#48. The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
Ken Kesey
#49. Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died ... ,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.
Norman Maclean
#50. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
Mary Shelley
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again ...
Philip Pullman
#54. 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
#55. I love the dead ... Frequently.
Necro
#56. I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.
Amy LaPalme
#57. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead
Katherine Boo
#58. In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
Anthony Geary
#59. Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.
Denise Grover Swank
#60. He bought her six dresses, and I brought her god-damned cat back from the dead, so who loves her more?!
Stephen King
#62. What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
Joshua Ferris
#63. But what is done is done. Who can make the dead tree green, or gaze again upon last year's light? Who can recall the spoken word, or bring back the spirit of the fallen? That which Time swallows comes not up again. Let it be forgotten!
H. Rider Haggard
#65. To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
#66. I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking.
George MacDonald
#68. When was it all right to let go not only of the dead but of the living - to learn to accept?
Alice Sebold
#69. Time is the only constant. For the living it never stops ... For the dead it doesn't matter ... And for the undead? For the undead, time is a joke to be laughed at!
Scott Snyder
#70. In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,
in books I see what is yet to come ...
All things decay and pass with time ...
all fame would fall victim to oblivion
if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.
Richard De Bury Translated By E.C.Thomas
#71. In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
Robin Hobb
#72. The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam
Anne Michaels
#73. A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
John Steinbeck
#74. Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating. His
Jenny Lawson
#75. I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.
Charles Todd
#76. My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Robert Southey
#77. Yeah, but I guess sometimes it's easier to take responsibility for the dead instead of the living. The rest of us have to look after them, Harry. The living. After all, that's the responsibility that drives us.
Jo Nesbo
#78. They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#79. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.
Mary Roach
#80. History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
Voltaire
#81. [On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
Margot Asquith
#82. Survival here means simply an incomplete death, not a partial life
to be trapped in a gap between the living and the dead. If I had a thousand tongues, I would not try to describe the agony!
Matthew Pearl
#83. The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
Jack London
#85. Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
Lou Engle
#86. Sometimes the way to let go of the dead is to put someone else in their place. Price
Aray Brown
#87. Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
Howard Zinn
#88. Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I'm not sure the dead are really concerned with that. And
David Baldacci
#97. Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.'
Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.
Neil Gaiman
#98. Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?
Rob Thomas
#99. A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.
Terence McKenna
#100. 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
