Dead Quotes - page 2

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. View quote
Willa Cather
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. View quote
George Santayana
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. View quote
Don DeLillo
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Rather be dead than cool. (Kurt Cobain)
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. View quote
Walt Disney
Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. View quote
Karl Marx
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. View quote
Groucho Marx
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. View quote
Groucho Marx
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. View quote
William Hazlitt
I would rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I am 45. View quote
Mick Jagger
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. View quote
George Eliot
All the gods are dead except the god of war. (Eldridge Cleaver)
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. View quote
Sylvia Plath
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. View quote
Henri Michaux