Top 100 You're Dead Quotes
#1. Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.
Richard Kadrey
#2. Well ... yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)
Show what (Dallas)
You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)
J.D. Robb
#3. The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Jack Nicholson
#4. One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.
Libba Bray
#5. If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)
Andrew Solomon
#6. You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.
Alice Cooper
#7. One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.
Tracey Emin
#8. Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
Robert Rodriguez
#10. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman
#11. There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
David Mamet
#12. It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.
Ruth Ozeki
#13. I'm not human, Ms. Deveraux. In case you haven't noticed, I'm one of the damned. (Valerius)
Baby, open your eyes and look around. We're all damned in one way or another. But damned is a far cry from dead. And you live like you're dead. (Tabitha)
I'm that, too. (Valerius)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
William Holden
#15. 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
#16. It's easier to kill people, when you're dead yourself," she told him. "I mean, it's not such a big deal. You're not so prejudiced any more.
Neil Gaiman
#18. The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months ... and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.
Michael Ian Black
#19. Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
#20. Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to ... hang.
Rob Thurman
#21. We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
Don Meyer
#22. It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
Neil Gaiman
#23. You'll be perfect when you're dead
Dan Harmon
#24. We're all equals as men, except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and you're dead.
Sarge
#25. You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.
Wally Lamb
#26. And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
#27. You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.
Michael Bassey
#29. Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But ... you you're dead!"
"Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.
Erin Hunter
#30. If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
Wavy Gravy
#31. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.
Bill Walsh
#32. I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.
James McAvoy
#33. It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
Keri Hulme
#34. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister.
Dead.
Dalton Trumbo
#35. The cold was bothering me. You'd think I'd welcome it. But it's something to do with being dead, I guess. You don't feel it as cold. You feel it as a sort of nothing, and when you're dead I guess the only thing that you're scared of is nothing.
Neil Gaiman
#36. You're dead, Cordelia.'
No I'm not.
'Yes you are. You're dead.
Lie down.
Margaret Atwood
#37. Don't lose the dreams inside your head
They'll only be there until you're dead
Dream
Dave Matthews
#38. You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#39. What's up Brandon?" "She's fine and you're dead." *********
D. Camille
#40. You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.
James Clavell
#41. When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.
Susan Hayward
#42. I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.
Michael Jackson
#43. If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
Molly Ivins
#44. The longer you live the less you're dead.
James Mee
#45. You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
Jim Butcher
#47. Layken, you're dead!" Kel shouts, through the open window as he thrusts his imaginary sword into my neck. He waits for me to slump over, but I just roll my eyes at him. "I stabbed you. You're supposed to die!" he says.
"Believe me, I'm already dead.
Colleen Hoover
#48. You only stop meltin the snow under where you're layin when you're dead.
Stephen King
#50. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
Patrick Macnee
#51. Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome.
Carla H. Krueger
#52. No dead people beyond this door,' " he read aloud from beyond the door. " 'And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.
Darynda Jones
#53. I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
Kami Garcia
#54. Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end.
There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got
them, you're dead because you didn't.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#55. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Jason Jack Miller
#56. It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.
Demetri Martin
#57. I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
Norm MacDonald
#58. Dawson shifted, dropping his head into his hand. "Do you ever stop talking?"
"When I'm sleeping," Blake replied.
"And when you're dead," Daemon threw back. "You'll stop talking when you're dead."
Blake's lips thinned. "Point taken.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
Al Swearengen
#60. Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.
Michael Vanderbyl
#61. I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you're dead, but I think there must be something in a human being that can't just disappear. It's dark out. You're out there. Somewhere, somewhere. I'd like to let you in.
Ava Dellaira
#62. Now, Ron, the Sorting's much more important than food," said Nearly Headless Nick as "Madley, Laura!" became a Hufflepuff. " 'Course it is, if you're dead," snapped Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#63. So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.
Rich Mullins
#64. But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#65. The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.
Roger Spottiswoode
#66. If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live.
James Grissom
#67. If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
Charles Bukowski
#68. LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.
Warren Zevon
#69. Worry about this, worry about that. In the end, you're dead anyway.
Marty Rubin
#70. Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
Bobby Flay
#71. The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.
Mark R. Jones
#72. If you hold your breath long enough, you're dead. If you give up and start breathing, you're mad. Isn't that so, Alice from Wonderland?
Cameron Jace
#73. There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
John Wayne
#74. Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.'
Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.
Orson Scott Card
#75. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
#76. You're a Doer, my love. That's why God made you so big. So you could do everything yourself. Girls like you don't quit til you're dead. That should be a comfort.
Sarah Winman
#77. The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.
Simon Cowell
#78. Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead
Lee Kuan Yew
#79. I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.
Neil Young
#80. What's the point of a good job if you're dead?
Andrew Garve
#81. You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so ... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
Kenny Wormald
#82. Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me
We in like that, you're dead like Presley
Q-Tip
#83. The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.
Roger Corman
#84. Life on the street is simple. You eat. You don't eat. You sleep. You don't sleep. You're alive. You're dead. It's that simple! - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#86. Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.
Robert Herjavec
#87. I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.
Bret Michaels
#88. There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Tom Waits
#89. The thing I love about you the most, is that when you're sleeping, I can imagine what you will look like when you're dead.
Julieanne Lynch
#90. George Lucas, go fuck yourself. I hope you're dead. I hope a fuckin' zombie busted in your house and knocked over your golden Yoda statue right onto your once creative head. These movies are terrible." An
Forbes West
#91. The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead
David Bowie
#92. Don't die before you're dead. And if you do, let it be the good kind...when the only part of you that dies is who you were supposed to be.
Scott Stambach
#93. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
Jennifer Echols
#94. It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.
Home Run Baker
#95. Experience is the best school,
Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,
Offering only one lesson called Life,
That you could only finish once you're dead!
Nelson M. Lubao
#96. here you've got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you're dead.
Raymond E. Feist
#97. The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead. Stick with barley and spelt.
Ken O'Neill
#98. sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.
Simon R. Green
#99. Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're dead, Potter."
Harry raised his eyebrows. "Funny," he said, "you'd think I'd have stopped walking around ...
J.K. Rowling
#100. Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.
Richard Dawkins
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