Dead Quotes

And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead

~ Rick Yancey

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

~ Simona Panova

(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

~ John Green

Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

~ Samuel Beckett

When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it.

~ Alice Jamieson

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

~ Suzanne Collins

…Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?” Mandy blurted out.“You mean when you die, where will you end up?” Alecto asked her. “…I wouldn’t know… back to whatever void there is, I suppose.”“I’ve thought about it… every living thing dies alone, it’ll be lonely after death,” Mandy sighed sadly. “That freaks me out, does it scare you?”“I don't want to be alone,” Alecto replied wearily. “We won’t be, though. We’ll be dead, so we’ll just be darkness, not much else, just memories, nostalgia and darkness.”“I don’t want to be any of that either though,” Mandy exclaimed, bursting into tears and crying, keeping her eyes to the floor, her voice shaky as she spoke to him. “When we die, we’ll still be nothing, the world will still be nothing, everything’ll just be nothing!”“You’re real though, at least that’s something,” Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.

~ Taylor Stevens

A man without trust might as well be dead.

~ Robert Jordan

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

~ Anthony Liccione

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene

~ Sophocles

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

~ Sophocles

They are dead. We are dead. It is over.

~ Victoria Aveyard

When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us the Poise to hold on. When we come across failure, He installs back in us the Potential to rise up again. When we meet death, He gave us the Pleasure to be carried up into the Lovely coasts of eternity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I can’t look people in the eye and tell them that they’re going to die anymore.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Legacy. What is a legacy?It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.

~ Hamilton Musical

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

~ Simona Panova

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead. That's how she said it.

~ Ben Rice

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

~ Carew Papritz

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

~ Suzy Kassem

The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Show your compassion to people in their life time, no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Glorious death is a transition into heavenly glories, “purposeless life” is the cause of shameful death and shameful death is a transition to eternal doom!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good, bad or ugly reason.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant, just prepare to deal with it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not everyone who died had left a memory and not everyone who had left a memory had left a blessed one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged ...of a blessed memory

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer