Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
- Edward Abbey
Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
- Mark Twain
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
- Jack Henry Abbott
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
- Aberjhani
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
- Kathy Acker
Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
- Peter Ackroyd
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
- John Acton
...The way is shut.
'Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
- J R R Tolkien
The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut.
- Legolas
- J R R Tolkien
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
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
- Richard Adams
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
- Richard Adams
CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.
- Aeschylus
I don't glorify the dead. If I didn't care if they were still alive, why do I even bother when they are dead. If I love a person when they are still alive, they will remain in my mind and in my heart when they die.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
- Ann Aguirre
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
- James Joyce
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
- James Joyce
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
- Anna Akhmatova
That was when the ones who smiled
Were the dead, glad to be at rest.
- Anna Akhmatova
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
- Mitch Albom
I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
- Jodi Picoult
I didn't know why it's called "getting lost". even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected
- Jodi Picoult
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
- Alan Alda
He grinned. "I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day," he said. "Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry..."
"I'm pretty sure irony isn't a deadly sin."
"I'm pretty sure it is."
"Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin."
"And spanking."
"I think that falls under lust."
"I think it should have its own category," said Jace. "Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.
- Cassandra Clare
I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
- Cassandra Clare
Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
- Cassandra Clare
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
- Cassandra Clare
Maryse sighed.Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?
- Cassandra Clare
Why didn't you wake me up?'
'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.'
Clary's hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.'
'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.
- Cassandra Clare
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.
- Ernest Hemingway
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
- John Ruskin
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
- William Allingham
The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53
- David Almond
Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.
- David Almond
D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. "You know one
thing," continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; "you
know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things.
Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will
come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is only the dead who do not return.
- Alexandre Dumas
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat.
Me: Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
- Harry Anderson
Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River."
"Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper.
- Larry Mcmurtry
She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.
- Ilona Andrews
First, it's used."
"Now look here," Teddy Jo growled. "It's not a Cadillac. It's a body freezer. The value doesn't drop because you drive it off the lot."
"I don't know what sort of bodies you stuck in there, Teddy. You might have put a leucrocuta in there. Those things stink."
"It's not like the dead gonna care. They can't smell shit, and they themselves ain't gonna get to smelling any better.
- Ilona Andrews
You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?"
"Yep."
"Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?"
"No, it's a pie. What can I do for Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead?
- Ilona Andrews
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.
- Ilona Andrews
The dead should not rule the living
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name The Philosopher's Stone.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
- Meg Cabot
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around
purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
- Meg Cabot
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
- Meg Cabot
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas B Macaulay
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
- Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
- Antonin Artaud
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
- Margaret Atwood
I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please.
- Margaret Atwood
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.
- Margaret Atwood
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
- Margaret Atwood
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?
- Melina Marchetta
The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the teacup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
- W H Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- W H Auden
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.
- Jean M Auel
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
- Julia Quinn
... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.
- Paul Auster
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Paul Auster
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
- Richard Bach
Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.
- P C Cast
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a strong piece of evidence that we were right for each other. And from then on when I read things Samuel Johnson said about the deadliness of leisure and the uplifting effects of industry, I always nodded and thought of brooms.
- Nicholson Baker
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
- James Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
- Oscar Wilde
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
- Oscar Wilde
I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
- Oscar Wilde
For not in quiet English fields
Are these, our brothers, lain to rest,
Where we might deck their broken shields
With all the flowers the dead love best.
- Oscar Wilde
some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with the hands of lust,
some with the hands of gold:
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE, because
THE DEAD SO SOON GROW COLD.
- Oscar Wilde
...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..
- Frank O Hara
But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses
- Russell Banks
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.
- Muriel Barbery
I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force and, sinking deeper into silence, they were able to draw from the dead paper something that seemed alive.
- Muriel Barbery
You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. "Is this your idea of mercy?"
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me.
- Leigh Bardugo
This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.
- Leigh Bardugo
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
- Daniel Barenboim
We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
- Clive Barker
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.
- Clive Barker
Those old hypocrites. The talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
- Clive Barker
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
- Clive Barker
That's what I want you to tell me. See, I deal with...well, most days, bizarre paranormal crap. You are Queen Weird. I need the queen on this before I have to start hiring a new staff of medical examiners who don't freak out when the dead move off their tables. You know where I can find some of these unusual people? I know you hang out with them. (Tate)
Thanks, Tate. I always look forward to these ego-bolstering pep talks of ours. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The dead won't hurt you, Shahara. Only the living can do that. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look, this isn't The Mummy. It's not like a teenaged girl's diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It's just the story of her innocuous life. What on earth could an ancient girl have known that would be worth killing someone over? (Tory)
You're asking me that question? People kill each other over a pair of shoes or for wearing the same jacket. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And neither do I, asshole. (Wren)
Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who'd have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she must have had a lot of talent to make you speak. Next thing you know, she'll have the dead walking. Quick, call a Dark-Hunter. I'm sure some of them would like another resurrection. (Dev)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon)
I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian)
Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon)
That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
- Vicki Baum
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
- Jean Paul
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Atheists. What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.
- Blaise Pascal
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
- Samuel Beckett
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
- Rob Bell
Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?
- L M Montgomery
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
- Anne Sexton
The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.
- Walter Benjamin
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
- Jose Bergaman
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of linethe survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Where are you now?'
Where was I now?
Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.
- Haruki Murakami
Only the dead stay 17 forever.
- Haruki Murakami
Phone calls in the dead of the night never brought good news.
- Haruki Murakami
People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.
- Haruki Murakami
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
- Haruki Murakami
The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
- Haruki Murakami
Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.
- Haruki Murakami
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
- William Bernbach
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- Thornton Wilder
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
- Thomas Bernhard
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
- Wendell Berry
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
- Hakim Bey
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
- Jello Biafra
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
- Jello Biafra
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
- E M Forster
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
- E M Forster
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
- Hugo Black
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
- John Blair
...So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky
- John Dryden
Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?" she asks. "Boy who kills ghosts for a living?"
"No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don't ask why.
- Kendare Blake
This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening.
- Kendare Blake
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
- H P Blavatsky
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
- Harold Bloom
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
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
- Uwe Boll
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
- William Shakespeare
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
- William Shakespeare
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
- William Shakespeare
She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.
- Ray Bradbury
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
- Ray Bradbury
I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the deadly sting of wind-lashed ice in my face, when the record -- Le Sacre du Printemps -- caught in the groove with a gnashing squeal as if a stageful of naiads, dryads and spandex satyrs had simultaneously gone lame.
- T C Boyle
Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living
Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving
Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares
Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares
Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains
No Nobody knows nothing
All that remains are remains
- Kami Garcia
Excuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the least afraid of the dead, there were those among the living who gave me the creeping hooly-goolies..
- Alan Bradley
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
- F H Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
- Omar N Bradley
It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.
- Kelly Braffet
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
- Brandon Sanderson
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but... what we are meant to be.
- Madeleine L Engle
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
- Kate Braverman
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
- John Bright
The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.
- Michael Scott
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
- Emily Bronte
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
- Anita Brookner
The dead walk among us.
- Max Brooks
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
- Max Brooks
... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
- Geraldine Brooks
It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.
- Geraldine Brooks
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
- Van Wyck Brooks
...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.
- Rudyard Kipling
Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.
- Frederick Buechner
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Real destiny takes everythingthe last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sureand gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?
- Charles Bukowski
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
- Charles Bukowski
(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm
bringing the dead back to life, marvelous
so marvelous
like eating cold olives at 3 am
with half the town on fire)
- Charles Bukowski
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
- Charles Bukowski
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life..
- Charles Bukowski
. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game - it was corpse fucking corpse.
- Charles Bukowski
On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.
- Neal Shusterman
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we'll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
- Chuck Palahniuk
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
- Chuck Palahniuk
She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed.
"These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-"
"No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones."
"Awww.
- Rick Riordan
The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.
- Rick Riordan
He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
- Rick Riordan
Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.
- Rick Riordan
Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife.
- Rick Riordan
In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh... ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?]
- Rick Riordan
But how do we even get to the land of the dead?" I asked. "I mean...without dying.
- Rick Riordan
Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn't a sign of things to come.
- Rick Riordan
...The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away.
The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.
- Rick Riordan
Safety from what? Who's after me?"
Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.
- Rick Riordan
He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
- Rick Riordan
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi
You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps... I can hardly write without envy.
--Michelangelo on the dead.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
- Wilfred Burchett
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
- Stanley Kubrick
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- George Burns
The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
- William S Burroughs
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)
- Jim Butcher
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
- Samuel Butler
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
- William Hazlitt
- Edward Abbey
Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
- Mark Twain
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
- Jack Henry Abbott
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
- Aberjhani
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
- Kathy Acker
Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
- Peter Ackroyd
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
- John Acton
...The way is shut.
'Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
- J R R Tolkien
The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut.
- Legolas
- J R R Tolkien
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
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
- Richard Adams
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
- Richard Adams
CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.
- Aeschylus
I don't glorify the dead. If I didn't care if they were still alive, why do I even bother when they are dead. If I love a person when they are still alive, they will remain in my mind and in my heart when they die.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
- Ann Aguirre
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
- James Joyce
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
- James Joyce
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
- Anna Akhmatova
That was when the ones who smiled
Were the dead, glad to be at rest.
- Anna Akhmatova
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
- Mitch Albom
I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
- Jodi Picoult
I didn't know why it's called "getting lost". even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected
- Jodi Picoult
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
- Alan Alda
He grinned. "I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day," he said. "Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry..."
"I'm pretty sure irony isn't a deadly sin."
"I'm pretty sure it is."
"Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin."
"And spanking."
"I think that falls under lust."
"I think it should have its own category," said Jace. "Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.
- Cassandra Clare
I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
- Cassandra Clare
Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
- Cassandra Clare
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
- Cassandra Clare
Maryse sighed.Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?
- Cassandra Clare
Why didn't you wake me up?'
'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.'
Clary's hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.'
'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.
- Cassandra Clare
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.
- Ernest Hemingway
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
- John Ruskin
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
- William Allingham
The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53
- David Almond
Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.
- David Almond
D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. "You know one
thing," continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; "you
know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things.
Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will
come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is only the dead who do not return.
- Alexandre Dumas
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat.
Me: Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
- Harry Anderson
Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River."
"Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper.
- Larry Mcmurtry
She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.
- Ilona Andrews
First, it's used."
"Now look here," Teddy Jo growled. "It's not a Cadillac. It's a body freezer. The value doesn't drop because you drive it off the lot."
"I don't know what sort of bodies you stuck in there, Teddy. You might have put a leucrocuta in there. Those things stink."
"It's not like the dead gonna care. They can't smell shit, and they themselves ain't gonna get to smelling any better.
- Ilona Andrews
You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?"
"Yep."
"Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?"
"No, it's a pie. What can I do for Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead?
- Ilona Andrews
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.
- Ilona Andrews
The dead should not rule the living
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name The Philosopher's Stone.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
- Meg Cabot
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around
purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
- Meg Cabot
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
- Meg Cabot
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas B Macaulay
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
- Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
- Antonin Artaud
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
- Margaret Atwood
I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please.
- Margaret Atwood
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.
- Margaret Atwood
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
- Margaret Atwood
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?
- Melina Marchetta
The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the teacup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
- W H Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- W H Auden
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.
- Jean M Auel
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
- Julia Quinn
... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.
- Paul Auster
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Paul Auster
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
- Richard Bach
Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.
- P C Cast
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a strong piece of evidence that we were right for each other. And from then on when I read things Samuel Johnson said about the deadliness of leisure and the uplifting effects of industry, I always nodded and thought of brooms.
- Nicholson Baker
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
- James Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
- Oscar Wilde
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
- Oscar Wilde
I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
- Oscar Wilde
For not in quiet English fields
Are these, our brothers, lain to rest,
Where we might deck their broken shields
With all the flowers the dead love best.
- Oscar Wilde
some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with the hands of lust,
some with the hands of gold:
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE, because
THE DEAD SO SOON GROW COLD.
- Oscar Wilde
...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..
- Frank O Hara
But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses
- Russell Banks
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.
- Muriel Barbery
I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force and, sinking deeper into silence, they were able to draw from the dead paper something that seemed alive.
- Muriel Barbery
You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. "Is this your idea of mercy?"
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me.
- Leigh Bardugo
This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.
- Leigh Bardugo
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
- Daniel Barenboim
We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
- Clive Barker
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.
- Clive Barker
Those old hypocrites. The talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
- Clive Barker
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
- Clive Barker
That's what I want you to tell me. See, I deal with...well, most days, bizarre paranormal crap. You are Queen Weird. I need the queen on this before I have to start hiring a new staff of medical examiners who don't freak out when the dead move off their tables. You know where I can find some of these unusual people? I know you hang out with them. (Tate)
Thanks, Tate. I always look forward to these ego-bolstering pep talks of ours. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The dead won't hurt you, Shahara. Only the living can do that. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look, this isn't The Mummy. It's not like a teenaged girl's diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It's just the story of her innocuous life. What on earth could an ancient girl have known that would be worth killing someone over? (Tory)
You're asking me that question? People kill each other over a pair of shoes or for wearing the same jacket. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And neither do I, asshole. (Wren)
Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who'd have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she must have had a lot of talent to make you speak. Next thing you know, she'll have the dead walking. Quick, call a Dark-Hunter. I'm sure some of them would like another resurrection. (Dev)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon)
I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian)
Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon)
That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
- Vicki Baum
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
- Jean Paul
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Atheists. What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.
- Blaise Pascal
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
- Samuel Beckett
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
- Rob Bell
Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?
- L M Montgomery
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
- Anne Sexton
The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.
- Walter Benjamin
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
- Jose Bergaman
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of linethe survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Where are you now?'
Where was I now?
Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.
- Haruki Murakami
Only the dead stay 17 forever.
- Haruki Murakami
Phone calls in the dead of the night never brought good news.
- Haruki Murakami
People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.
- Haruki Murakami
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
- Haruki Murakami
The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
- Haruki Murakami
Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.
- Haruki Murakami
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
- William Bernbach
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- Thornton Wilder
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
- Thomas Bernhard
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
- Wendell Berry
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
- Hakim Bey
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
- Jello Biafra
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
- Jello Biafra
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
- E M Forster
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
- E M Forster
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
- Hugo Black
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
- John Blair
...So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky
- John Dryden
Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?" she asks. "Boy who kills ghosts for a living?"
"No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don't ask why.
- Kendare Blake
This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening.
- Kendare Blake
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
- H P Blavatsky
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
- Harold Bloom
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
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
- Uwe Boll
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
- William Shakespeare
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
- William Shakespeare
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
- William Shakespeare
She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.
- Ray Bradbury
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
- Ray Bradbury
I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the deadly sting of wind-lashed ice in my face, when the record -- Le Sacre du Printemps -- caught in the groove with a gnashing squeal as if a stageful of naiads, dryads and spandex satyrs had simultaneously gone lame.
- T C Boyle
Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living
Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving
Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares
Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares
Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains
No Nobody knows nothing
All that remains are remains
- Kami Garcia
Excuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the least afraid of the dead, there were those among the living who gave me the creeping hooly-goolies..
- Alan Bradley
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
- F H Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
- Omar N Bradley
It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.
- Kelly Braffet
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
- Brandon Sanderson
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but... what we are meant to be.
- Madeleine L Engle
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
- Kate Braverman
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
- John Bright
The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.
- Michael Scott
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
- Emily Bronte
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
- Anita Brookner
The dead walk among us.
- Max Brooks
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
- Max Brooks
... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
- Geraldine Brooks
It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.
- Geraldine Brooks
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
- Van Wyck Brooks
...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.
- Rudyard Kipling
Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.
- Frederick Buechner
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Real destiny takes everythingthe last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sureand gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?
- Charles Bukowski
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
- Charles Bukowski
(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm
bringing the dead back to life, marvelous
so marvelous
like eating cold olives at 3 am
with half the town on fire)
- Charles Bukowski
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
- Charles Bukowski
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life..
- Charles Bukowski
. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game - it was corpse fucking corpse.
- Charles Bukowski
On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.
- Neal Shusterman
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we'll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
- Chuck Palahniuk
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
- Chuck Palahniuk
She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed.
"These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-"
"No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones."
"Awww.
- Rick Riordan
The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.
- Rick Riordan
He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
- Rick Riordan
Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.
- Rick Riordan
Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife.
- Rick Riordan
In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh... ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?]
- Rick Riordan
But how do we even get to the land of the dead?" I asked. "I mean...without dying.
- Rick Riordan
Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn't a sign of things to come.
- Rick Riordan
...The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away.
The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.
- Rick Riordan
Safety from what? Who's after me?"
Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.
- Rick Riordan
He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
- Rick Riordan
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi
You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps... I can hardly write without envy.
--Michelangelo on the dead.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
- Wilfred Burchett
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
- Stanley Kubrick
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- George Burns
The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
- William S Burroughs
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)
- Jim Butcher
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
- Samuel Butler
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
- William Hazlitt
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