Seems Dead Quotes

#1. In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.

Robert Inchausti

#2. Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?
In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?
Or is the use its life?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Perhaps the earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive

Pablo Neruda

#4. Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

Janet Flanner

#5. Life is still as never was,
One Seems dead yet still is alive.
Man frets for things, things he can buy,
All's for sale but not life.
Life is there when a friend is there,
A friend like you worth more than life.

Amit Abraham

#6. Even the city seems dead this late at night.

Levi Rogers

#7. Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

Judd Apatow

#8. 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

#9. He ... " Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."
Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

Megan Boyle

#11. Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

Edwin Arnold

#12. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Russell Brand

#13. Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

Victor Hugo

#14. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

William Donaldson

#15. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

#16. Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

Marcel Duchamp

#17. There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#18. You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

Dave Eggers

#19. The old ideals are dead as nails
nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman
sort of ultimate marriage
and there isn't anything else.

D.H. Lawrence

#20. The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an instant, there's no dog, no leash. No sound in the air.

Then Marcus says, 'The tree just ate the dead dog.'

'Yes,' says Jose. 'So it seems.

Veronica Rossi

#21. Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Oscar Wilde

#22. The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

Seth Shostak

#23. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

Peter Hoeg

#24. The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Irving Penn

#25. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Deborah Eisenberg

#26. I have always said,
on the birth of dreams,
That they must form wings and spread.
For there is no sadder sight it seems,
Than that of dreams that are dead.

Trygvie Jensen

Trygvie Jensen

#27. In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.

Annabel Pitcher

#28. Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like time - bitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.

Henry Miller

#29. Given that there is every indication I'll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I'm dead, hopefully at the ripe old age of 98 like Grandma Sanders, an unreasonable number of cats seems to be the next logical step in my life.

Lindsey Stuffel

#30. It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

Erica Leerhsen

#31. Seen from the expressway at quarter to five in the morning, Boston seems a city of the dead brooding over some tragedy in its past - a plague, perhaps, or a curse.

Stephen King

#32. The American Dream isn't dead, but it seems to have developed a Texas accent.

Mark Davis

#33. According to population expert Dr. Paul Ehrlich, we should currently be experiencing a dystopian dreamscape where "survivors envy the dead," which seems true only when I look at Twitter. Yet

Chuck Klosterman

#34. The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

Emily Dickinson

#35. All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

James Madison

#36. Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#37. But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#38. Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

Chelsea Fine

#39. You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Daniel Clowes

#40. ,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.
Chapter I.

Chuck Palahniuk

#41. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?

Ben Okri

#42. Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.

Tom Chapin

#43. There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Leigh Hunt

#44. The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.

Jo Ann Beard

#45. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.

Gabby Bess

#46. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?

Vanessa Woods

#47. Zombies are a fairly new addition to the cannon of monsterdom. Really, the modern zombie goes back just to the 'Night of the Living Dead.' There's a ton of material out there, but it seems like there's not a lot of diversity out there.

Steve Hockensmith

#48. When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.

Patricia Cornwell

#49. Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

Wayne Dyer

#50. What is a ghost?
Something dead
that seems to be alive.
Something dead
that doesn't know it's dead.

Richard Siken

#51. The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.

Gail Caldwell

#52. Do you know that feeling - The feeling of being alive and dead, both at the same time? When it seems like you are just going through with different notions of life, without actually living it. I do, I know that feeling very well. I live with it, eat with it and often sleep with it.

Bhavya Kaushik

#53. Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Michael Bassey

#54. It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.

And I'm not a satellite. I'm space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him.

Nicola Yoon

#55. He takes her in his arms
He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you
But he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
You're dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.

Louise Gluck

#56. I've always heard that it's not nice to talk about the dead. But it seems to me that's the best time to talk about them. So I hope you'll reserve your opinion of me for a few more years.
Shelley Fraser Mickle

Shelley Mickle

#57. The trade-off seems like a no-brainer. Would you rather be bribed during your hospital stay with made-to-order omelets or would you rather be, for example, not dead?

Alexandra Robbins

#58. As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jeanne Moreau

#59. Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Ron Chernow

#60. I'm sorry. Were you just speaking to me? I apologize most profusely. I was distracted by the size of the sweat stains under your arms. Are you overly warm today? It seems unlikely given the cold, dead heart that surely beats in your chest.

T.J. Klune

#61. It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

John Green

#62. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Chris Hayes

#63. 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

#64. Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.

John Waters

#65. It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.

Hidekaz Himaruya

#66. I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

James Laughlin

#67. Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.

Sharon Osbourne

#68. I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we're actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them.

James Lee Burke

#69. Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

Stephen King

#70. There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

Bernard Cornwell

#71. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...

Gautama Buddha

#72. February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

Anna Quindlen

#73. In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

Isabella Rossellini

#74. It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Eric Idle

#75. I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#76. I've been told by professional drug users that if I did the drugs, I would like the Dead. It seems like the most effective PSA against drugs could just play some Dead jams and say, "If you do drugs, you will like this kind of music." What other deterrent would one need?

Penn Jillette

#77. The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Robert Morgan

#78. He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.

William Faulkner

#79. God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

#80. Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he.
Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Robert Jordan