Dead Quotes

He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a room with wide windows and a balcony that overlooked the plaza where the children ran and yelled each morning. He heard them shouting now. And this was Mexico's Death Day. There was a smell of death all through Mexico you never got away from, no matter how far you went. No matter what you said or did, not even if you laughed or drank, did you ever get away from death in Mexico. No car went fast enough. No drink was strong enough.(The Candy Skull)

~ Ray Bradbury

I understood that to live is to be free ... that to have friends is necessary ... that to fight is to stay alive ... that to be happy you just need to want ... I learned that time heals ... that the grudge disappears ... that disappointment does not kill ... that today is a reflection of yesterday. I understood that we can cry without shedding tears ... that true friends remain ... what a pain strengthens ... what to win magnifies... I learned that dreaming is not fantasize ... that to smile you have to make someone smile ... that beauty is not what we see, but what we feel ... that the value is in the strength of achievement ... I realized that words have power ... that to accomplish is better than to talk ... that the look does not lie ... that living is learning from mistakes ... I learned that everything depends on the will ... that the best is to be ourselves ... that the SECRET of life is LIVE! And one of the things I learned is that one should live though. Although, one must eat. Although, we must love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the very although that pushes us forward. It was the despite of that gave me an anguish that unsatisfied was breeder my own life.

~ Pedro Bial

A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.

~ Stephen A. Smith

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

~ Sariah Wilson

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

~ Ian Fleming

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

~ James Branch Cabell

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been?

~ Cornelia Funke

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

There’s no getting better, Storm. This is it.” There’s no coming back from the dead.

~ K.a. Tucker

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

~ Margaret Atwood

How quickly the dead faded into each other

~ Ian Mcewan

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

He held up his hands in surrender. “I’m not here to start trouble. I am just doing some research for my thesis.”“If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.

~ Jessica Fortunato

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will?(ghost of)POLYXENA: I think I will not bend.IPHIGENIA: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.

~ Robert J.a. Gilbert

It had been a couple of years and I was neither dead, nor undead, which I ranked as an achievement.

~ Mark Henwick

There was something dead in my heart.I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.I had a dead mouse in my heart.

~ Richard Brautigan

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living

~ Emily Brontë

The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge

~ Catharine Arnold

The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls Neolithic beliefs that certain human remains possessed supernatural properties. It was believed that canonized saints did not rot, like lesser mortals, but that their corpses were miraculously preserved and emanated an odour of sanctity, a sweet, floral smell, for years after death. In forensic terms, such preservation is likely to be a result of natural mummification in hot, dry conditions.

~ Catharine Arnold

Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.

~ Catharine Arnold

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction – nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dead.

~ H.g. Wells

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

~ Lavie Tidhar

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

~ Voltaire

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

~ Elie Wiesel

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

~ George Santayana

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

~ Omar N. Bradley

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

~ Eldridge Cleaver

Rather be dead than cool.

~ Kurt Cobain

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

~ Jesus Christ

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

~ Warren Zevon

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

~ Albert Einstein

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

~ Daniel Barenboim

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

~ Marlene Dietrich

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

~ Arlo Guthrie