Im Dead Quotes

I want to do something splendid...
Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead...
I think I shall write books.
- Louisa May Alcott

I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
- Louisa May Alcott

I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.
- Louisa May Alcott

I want to do something splendid...
Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead...
I think I shall write books.
- Louisa May Alcott

I'm out of health potions. Retreat! Retreat! Give me some of your health potions!" I screamed. "I don't have any potions. Run, bitch, run," Brody squealed. The red ran out on my health and my assassin was transported, stripped of everything we'd earned, back to the starting camp. "I'm dead! Fuck, they killed me!
- Kristen Ashley

Truthfully, if you want to remember me, do it now. I won't give a shit when I'm dead.
- Alice Bag

You don't like Talon, do you? (Sunshine)
Wish him dead every time I see him. (Zarek)
I can't tell if you mean that or not. (Sunshine)
I mean it. (Zarek)
Why? (Sunshine)
He's an asshole and I've had enough assholes in my life. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.
- Albert Camus

Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister.
- L M Montgomery

I'm dead. I can't be all right any more than I can be not all right.
- Kendare Blake

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
- Bono

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
- Russell Brand

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
- Jimmy Buffett

Nevertheless, here it is: my Hideous Admission. I'll fess up and come clean. I'm out of the closet. I'm dead. Now don't hold it against me.
- Chuck Palahniuk

If I'm dead," he murmured. "Why does it hurt so much?
- Rick Riordan

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.
- Suzanne Collins

There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.
- Suzanne Collins

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
- Forrest Carter

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato

I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn't smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.
- Karen Chance

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
- Brian Clough

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.
- Cyril Connolly

Hi. I'm Dru Anderson. My father went way-out wack after my mom died and now he travels around hunting things that go bump in the night, killing things you can only find in fairytales and ghost stories. I help him out when I can, but most of the time I'm deadweight, even though I can tell you where anything inhuman in this town is likely to hang out. I'm skipping school because I won't be here in another three months. None of it goddamn well matters.
- Lilith Saintcrow

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
- Imogen Cunningham

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.
- Virginia Woolf

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everythingand I advise you to do the same.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.
- Sylvia Day

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
- Don Delillo

When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
- J P Donleavy

Because I wasn't anything anymore. Not anythingI love or know or care about. Because thou shalt not kill, Kade. Thou shalt not kill. With all my heart I believed this. And I killed. So what am I now? And why should I live? How am I even alive? Because if this is what our lives are--if doing this to others before they do it to us is all our lives are--we're already dead. Honest to God I feel it, Kade. I'm dead. The hell with me.
- David James Duncan

Oh you five and ten cent women
With nothin' in your heads
I got a real gal I'm lovin'
And Lord I'll love her till I'm dead
Go away from my door and my window too
Right now
- Bob Dylan

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.
- Charles Frazier

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
- Lady Gaga

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.
- Lady Gaga

I'm dead. I've missed you. Kiss ... ?
- Neil Gaiman

Why should I wish him dead?" Littlefinger shrugged. "I had no motive. Besides, I am a thousand leagues away in the Vale. Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game." "What... what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones.
- George R R Martin

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
- Greta Garbo

You'll probably die if you stay with me,' he told me.
'Then I'm dead either way, because I won't survive without you.
- Julie Hockley

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
- Langston Hughes

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
- Scott Joplin

My favorite unit of time is the hour, because I collect them and store as many as 10 new and unused ones each night to use after I'm dead.
- Jarod Kintz

If you want to find dirt on me, wait until after I'm dead and buried.
- Jarod Kintz

The best part about love is it'll still be around long after I'm dead. That's also the worst part.
- Jarod Kintz

After I'm dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.
- Jarod Kintz

Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
That's what I want from you.
The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,
But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.
Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
- Sue Monk Kidd

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
- Laura Kightlinger

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
- Dean Koontz

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin.
For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then:
"Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.
- Peter Lerangis

I'm dead, but it's not that bad. I've learned to live with it.
- Isaac Marion

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.
- John Marsden

But one kiss levitates above all the others. The
intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.
The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss.
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
- Jeffrey Mcdaniel

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
- Jeffrey Mcdaniel

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
- Alexander Mcqueen

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
- Freddie Mercury

I'm dead, right? I did drown. Crap, crap, crap! This is gonna kill Charlie.
- Stephenie Meyer

all my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead
- Ben Mikaelsen

I can't go down there. They think I'm dead!
Oh, you've remembered that. Good for you.
- L J Smith

I'll go sleep on the couch," James said. "No, you won't," Poppy said firmly. She flopped on the bed beside him. "You're dead tired. And I know I'm safe with you." James grinned without moving his arm. "Because I'm dead tired?
- L J Smith

I remember coming to in white room, with white walls, and people all around me covered in white sheets and thinking, F**k, I'm in the morgue. Then I heard a hissing noise next to my bed.
Pssst, pssst.
I looked down and there was this kid holding up a pen and a copy of "Bark at the Moon.
'Will you sign this for me?' he asked.
'F**k off,' I told him. 'I'm dead.'
- Ozzy Osbourne

The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him.... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest just like you... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.
- Osho

As the figure moved before him he followed the muscles as they wove beneath the skin. he was not only fighting with an assailant who was awaiting for that split second in which to strike him dead, but he was stabbing at a masterpiece -- at sculpture that leapt and heaved, at a marvel of inky shadow and silver light. A great wave of nausea surged through him and his knife felt putrid in his hand. His body went on fighting
- Mervyn Peake

I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books.
And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum.
No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.
- Matthew Quick

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
- Charles Nelson Reilly

In a few minutes, the town will stand up and applaud. I feel as if I'm looking down at my own funeral, only nobody knows that I'm dead. It's a frightening, lonely feeling.
- Karen Russell

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
- Maurice Sendak

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

There's still time to find him. And people assuming Marc's dead doesn't make him dead. How often
does Marc hold to the status quo?
- Rachel Vincent

I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.
- Rachel Vincent

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
- Alice Walker

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
- Lil Wayne

I'm missing something, aren't I?"
"Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours."
"Tell him I'm dead.
- Michelle Sagara West

Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?
- Michelle Sagara West

Yes, you have been away a very long time.'
'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
- Edith Wharton

Shay," she said. "Shay McKenna," as if trying out his name, saying it for the first time. "Did you ever love me, even a little?"
Love you?" He turned his head and brushed his lips across her fingers. "I'm loving you now, mo chridh. After I'm dead, a thousand years from now, whatever's left of me, be it a soul or just a handful of dust, that will be loving you.
- Penelope Williamson

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
- Banana Yoshimoto

I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon