„We can't stop living because other people are dead.“
— Richelle Mead, book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
Quotes about the dead
A collection of quotes on the topic of dead.
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„They say there is a judgement day. I don't think judgement day comes when we are dead. The judgement day is today, the judgement day is now. And it is going to allow you to live a life of hell now; Or to choose your own kingdom, To live Heaven on earth now. Live dangerously until you die.“
— Rich Piana American bodybuilder and internet personality 1970 - 2017
„Gold is cold, diamonds are dead, a limousine is a car, don't pretend, feel what's real… “
— Charlize Theron film actress and producer, former fashion model 1975
„When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.“
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
„Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.“
— Brandon Sanderson, book Words of Radiance
Source: Words of Radiance
„A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.“
— Emily Dickinson, book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
„That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.“
— Ricky Gervais English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter 1961
„Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.“
— Gabrielle Zevin, book Elsewhere
Source: Elsewhere
„Some Vietnam veterans have told me what they did over there when they were animals. They have been giving testimony about it to the public, to juries, to judges. Some of the juries cry, and so do some of the judges.
One Ex-Marine has a face like a Puerto Rican angel and a body count of 390. That means he and his unit killed 390 people in a variety of hideous ways, and the angel got to go count the dead bodies for the record.
And now he and a lot of his buddies are trying to make up for what we made them do. We paid the taxes that bought the war that hired the men and dropped the fire that burned the huts and killed the people who then were the bodies that Scott counted. It's a rotten thing to brainwash someone into doing the dirty part of killing while we stay at home. It's a rotten thing to pretend the war is coming to an end when it's only taken to the air. And in 1972 if you don't fight against a rotten thing you become a part of it.
What I'm asking you to do is take some risks. Stop paying war taxes, refuse the armed forces, organize against the air war, support the strikes and boycotts of farmers, workers and poor people, analyze the flag salute, give up the nation state, share your money, refuse to hate, be willing to work … in short, sisters and brothers, arm up with love and come from the shadows.“
— Joan Baez American singer 1941
Text notes on Come From The Shadows (1972)
„Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.“
— The Notorious B.I.G. American rapper 1972 - 1997
Song lyrics, Ready to Die (1994), "Juicy"
„Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett.“
— Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015
t-shirt worn by Pratchett at conventions https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/stephen-mcginty-sir-terry-pratchett-a-class-act-1-3718745 https://books.google.ca/books?id=n78kYbvUd_8C&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=%22tolkien%27s+dead%22+pratchett+shirt&source=bl&ots=uosL5-E7O9&sig=rMN8J7liwEBmaE92G4EWLunv2wk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBmL6nr-DbAhUB6YMKHd9XALoQ6AEIoAEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22tolkien's%20dead%22%20pratchett%20shirt&f=false
Misc
„My head was like an ardent coal,
My heart as solid ice;
My wretched, wretched soul, I knew,
Was at the Devil's price:
A dozen times I groaned: the dead
Had never groaned but twice!“
— Thomas Hood British writer 1799 - 1845
1840s, The Dream of Eugene Aram
„I declined to be made Pontifex Maximus in succession to a colleague still living, when the people tendered me that priesthood which my father had held. Several years later I accepted that sacred office when he at last was dead who, taking advantage of a time of civil disturbance, had seized it for himself, such a multitude from all Italy assembling for my election, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius, as is never recorded to have been in Rome before.“
— Augustus, book Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
„Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone. We just wanted to pay tribute to something that helped us to feel as though we had crawled out of the dung heap of conformity.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Incesticide liner notes (1992)
„It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
„I think they’ll use sounds and tones and music and use it in their virtual reality machines. And just listen to it that way and get the same emotions from it. And then go to a party. There’ll be a virtual reality machine there with a whole bunch of headphones and if you wanna talk to people and listen to the virtual reality machine you can do that and go into the other bedroom and fuck and drink and… but actually I think virtual reality machines will get you high. Technology will be that good. And then there’ll be like virtual reality junkies lying there dead on their couch from OD’ing.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
„Rather be dead then cool“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Variant: I'd rather be dead than be cool.