Quotes of: Dead-horse Keyword

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Poems of Akhmatova

There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.

Paris in April

If you are reading this, I'm dead. Don't celebrate too much. Jesus is watching.

Place Your Betts

I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time." - Rose

Paradox Child

When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

Poems

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

The Prince of Tides

Thinking of this friend I had. This friend I loved and keep loving--dead, but never really gone.

Paper Valentine

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

Perfect You

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.

Queen of the Dead

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

The Reality Bug

Did you get notes for me?" "No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.

The Raven Boys

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

The Reckoning

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

The Road

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

A Tract on Monetary Reform

-Is he dead?  -Gosh I hope so, because I went to a lot of trouble to dig his grave.

This Book Has No Title

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

The Trojan Women

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.

Unique: A New Breed

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Under the Dome