I Am Dead Quotes

To my son,
If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
- Cassandra Clare

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
- Ernest Hemingway

Now that I am dead, I know everything.
- Margaret Atwood

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
- Lucille Ball

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
- Hilaire Belloc

Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.
- William Shakespeare

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then would make you woe.
- William Shakespeare

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
- Jorge Luis Borges

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
- Yul Brynner

great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.
- Charles Bukowski

But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
- Jim Butcher

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
- Michael Caine

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
- Jean Cocteau

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
- David Crockett

I will never remember anything
I know how to forget and forgive
Life has turned into miracle,now
I know, when I am dead
Nobody would remember me,
they all will forget
I am an immortal soul
I will forgive them, all
Shapeshifting in wind of change.
- Santosh Kalwar

I am dead man alive.
- Santosh Kalwar

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If a am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.
- Henry Miller

You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately
- Henry Miller

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
- George Steinbrenner

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
- Victor Hugo

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
- Henry Fox

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
- King George V

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
- Thomas Hardy

When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should lean above me broken hearted,
I shall not care.
For I shall have peace.
As leafey trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough.
And I shall be more silent and cold hearted
Than you are now
- Sara Teasdale

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
- Terry Goodkind

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
- Sylvia Plath

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
- Jim Harrison

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
- Jim Harrison

Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red,
And sing brave songs of gallant love and true,
Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue,
And dance, as I your dances oft have led,
And laugh, as I have often laughed with you -
And be most merry - after I am dead.
- Winifred Holtby

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

When I Read the Book
When I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
- Walt Whitman

All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead. If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died?
And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.
- Jean Hanff Korelitz

I am going to die,' her brain recited calmly. 'I am going to be stabbed until I am dead. How infuriating. I have so much left to do.
- Claire Legrand

Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.
- Gaston Leroux

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
- Gaston Leroux

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.
- Isaac Marion

This book, when I am dead, will be
A little faint perfume of me.
People who knew me well will say,
She really used to think that way.
- Edna St Vincent Millay

When I am dead, stop waiting and be free. Of me put me deep inside you and then go out in the world and live. Love the world and yourself in it. Move though it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
- Audrey Niffenegger

You're a terrible man for the blankets, said Kerrigan.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I love my bed, said Byrne. She was my first friend...She will house me in my last hour and faithfully hold my cold body when I am dead. She will look bereaved when I am gone.
- Flann O Brien

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.
- Michael Ondaatje

I shall have more to say when I am dead.
- Edwin A Robinson

Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
- Robert Louis Stevenson