Dead Quotes

It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [..] But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [..] I have become so indifferent about the dead.

~ Elizabeth Wein

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

~ Richard Matheson

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

~ Richard Matheson

How fortunate, then, that we serve a God who quickens the dead. Who breathes life into the lifeless. Do you not think that a God who formed man out of dust can form a new creation in you?

~ Roseanna M. White

He glanced nervously over his shoulder with a remarkable pair of codfish eyes.'Like a ’orrid movie I saw once in Canarsie. Bunch o’ lunks set off on a cruise to nowhere, just like this, and wot do you suppose they all was?''What?''Dead.''How?''Dead as mutton, only they didn’t know it.

~ Rufus King

The dead are practical.

~ Tim W. Burke

I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you’ll see walking around the streets.

~ Tia Artemis

If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.

~ Marie Lu

I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin... and I too, of course can no longer live. But for some reason this gives me pleasure, a terrible amount of pleasure to imagine so the one I love: earlier I imagined grandmother and then my fiance in this manner, even my favorite animals, Sparky our cat with the fiery bursts of red on his gray-black fur.(Thirty-Three Abominations)

~ Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Can you really talk to the dead? She gave me the look that I was familiar with by now: equal parts derision, skepticism, and curiosity. “How much would it be? I mean, how much do you charge?

~ Amy Lapalme

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him.

~ Kim Harrison

What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive?

~ Peter Watts

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

~ Marcel Theroux

I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.

~ Generation Kill

It is seriously creepy when you receive a friend request from a dead friend in social media asking you to accept.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I don't see the point in worrying now that I a half-dead and not when I was okay.

~ Arely Martinez Garcia

The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star...

~ Donna Tartt

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

~ Hugh Howey

Great, I get to be told I am dead all over again. -Stomfur

~ Erin Hunter

Hours of being asked:Do you understand? But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask.What does it feel like?

~ Alexandra Bracken

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

~ Moira Young

I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Well, if you’d let me explain before you went bolting outta the room, then you’d know, wouldn’t you? It seems to me that you’re quite dead. So I’ve come to collect you.” –Sam

~ Nessie Strange

Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

~ Cassandra Clare

Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

~ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

~ Pierce Brown

I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

~ J.r. Ward

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.

~ Munia Khan

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The mist enveloped her form. She was lifted into it, then instantly dropped. Swiftly, the mist retreated to the window.It was gone. The old woman lay flat on her back, eyes open and staring; her mouth open, too, unprettily.That was the over-all effect - the utter lack of anything beautiful.(The Witch)

~ A.e. Van Vogt

People don't want the truth when they ask how you're doing after you lost your brother.

~ Jolene Perry

But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to live. And if the war managed only to separate the living from the dead, then the new regime, arriving in its wake, would sooner or later pit them against each other as enemies.

~ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

~ Anthony Liccione

And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no uninnocent dead.”After a while, “You’re not going to explain that, or…”“Course not, it’s a koan.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Words are dead, until action brings them life.

~ Anthony Liccione