Dead Quotes

A moment in time is never dead.

~ Khalid Masood

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

~ Deyth Banger

Oh no. He looks half-dead. Charlie's face paled as he eyed the trapper's wrist and the blood-soaked bandages.Indeed. Jackaby nodded. And if we don't get him some proper attention soon, he'll be all dead.

~ William Ritter

The hunter does not seek dead game.

~ Frank Herbert

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

~ Kate Atkinson

We're better than Galileo. Because he's dead.

~ Jenny Lawson

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.

~ Will Advise

Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“ She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can’t get over the past,” Aunt Evie said. “That’s what ghost’s are. Not them.” She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. “The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay.

~ Stephen King

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

The dead neither see nor ear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .wrote Luc Berimont in 1940, in Reign of Darkness.I’ve always felt the greatest reluctance to go anywhere near, to touch, a fresh corpse. For me, it’s an unseemly thing. Useless. Hostile. Cunning. Dangerous. The ‘presence’ is much stronger, more perceptible one hour after death than one hour before. By my observation, this was not the case with Heisserer.He was entirely absent from his head, his hands,his quivering body. He was gone instantly, unburdened of his absurd life, released.

~ Jacques Yonnet

The dead are emotionless.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

~ Claudio Encarnacion Montero

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

~ Kate Atkinson

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

~ Lawrence Block

The next time you hear a person say, 'I don't have time' or 'I have no time,' Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.

~ J.r. Rim

Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it

~ Steven Magee

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

~ Lauren Destefano

There is no spoon.

~ Jim Butcher

No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been slain by robbers--my body lies at Wurtzburg--at midnight I am to be buried--the grave is waiting for me--I must keep my appointment!

~ Washington Irving

I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey,” announced Rose. “Let’s help the dead man with his problem.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

~ Seanan Mcguire

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .

~ Luc Berimont

Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.

~ Madeline Miller

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

~ Madeline Miller

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

~ Madeline Miller

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

~ Madeline Miller

We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others.

~ Rick Yancey

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.

~ Jennifer Niven

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

~ Mary Roach

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

~ John Maynard Keynes

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

~ Peter Hedges

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

~ Taherah Mafi

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

~ Nikolai Gogol

compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...

~ Mary Roach

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....

~ Mary Roach

We are all Dead, just not yet buried.

~ Brandon Notch

Metias is gone again. He is always gone.

~ Marie Lu

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Persephone suggested.'Pardon?'She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.'It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.''Dying and dead are different words.'Shamed, Adam muttered an apology....

~ Maggie Stiefvater