Dead Quotes

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. (Cicero)
Only the dead have seen the end of war. View quote
Plato
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive. View quote
Antisthenes
In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. View quote
Anne Frank
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. View quote
Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. View quote
Euripides
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. View quote
Thomas Szasz
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The dead govern the living. View quote
Auguste Comte
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. (G. K. Chesterton)
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. View quote
William Faulkner
The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. View quote
Groucho Marx
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. View quote
James Thurber
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. (Uma Thurman)
I shall have more to say when I am dead. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? View quote
Freddie Mercury
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. View quote
Edmund Burke