Quotes of: Dead-people Keyword

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

The House of the Dead

I read the tea leaves as if they were words left over from a conversation between two cups.

The Honicknowle Book of the Dead

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.

The Hundred-Year House

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

The Art of War

A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

Better Off Dead

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

The Book of the Dead

Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.

Bury Your Dead

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Bury Your Dead

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

The Bell Jar

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

The Broken Kingdoms

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

By Blood We Live

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Birds of Passage

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?

Bards and Sages Quarterly

A brick could be used to communicate with the dead. I just spoke to Stalin, and he’s very pleased with the way America’s progressing, collectively, as a country. 

Brick

If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.

Breathless

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

John Ralston Saul

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Uwe Boll

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.

George A. Romero