Quotes of: Dead-people Keyword

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Moses Mendelssohn

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

5 Miles

I don’t have time to kill you, and you don’t have time to die, because I’m not into redundancy, and you’re already dead.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

All These Things I've Done

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

All Together Dead

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

American Gods

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

American Gods

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Antigone

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Ain't She Sweet

Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

Age of the Seer

Even dead fallen leaves go a long way with the wind before getting crushed.

Autopsy of the seasons

Dead my old fine hopes And dry my dreaming but still... Iris, blue each spring

Japanese Haiku

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Just Kids

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Kill the Dead

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

Ruinland

There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.

Run, Run, Run

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

Revival

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

Stay Awake

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Selected Essays