Quotes of: Dead Keyword

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.

The Final Warning

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

The Blind Assassin

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

Bag of Bones

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

On the Beach

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

Brain Droppings

Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile, And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time

Of Butterflies and Ghosts

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

The Blood

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

Butterflies in November

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

Border of a Dream: Selected Poems

Nothing gives you a fear flashback like a bunch of strangers cheering in surprise that you're not dead.

Bossypants

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Charles Kingsley

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

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