Quotes about the dead
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„The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.“
— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975
„The campaign I’m donating my rotten face for is ‘Dead things should be buried, not eaten.’ Being a vegetarian, it kind of shows how gory it is to see ripped off arms and ripped off hands of people of our own species. But I think it brings a campy, disturbing and grotesque realization to the fact that that’s how animals are being treated, especially in commercial farming. … There’s been a lot of focus on cannibalism. Which is funny, because if you treat all creatures the same, then a lot of Americans are cannibals.“
— Sharon Needles American drag performer 1981
Interview with PETA, quoted in "Sharon Needles, Drag Queen, Stars In PETA Halloween ‘Flesh-Eating’ Ad", HuffPost (15 October 2012) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/sharon-needles-halloween-flesh-eating-peta-ad-cannibals-cannibalism-_n_1967323.html.
„Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still…
Iris, blue each spring“
— Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694
Source: Japanese Haiku
„Truly, I wish I were dead.
She was weeping when she left me,
and said many things to me, and said this:
"How much we have suffered, Sappho.
Truly, I don't want to leave you."“
— Sappho ancient Greek lyric poet -630 - -570 BC
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 11
„The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.“
— William Gibson, book Neuromancer
Source: Neuromancer (1984)
„Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and loneliness and mire
Of the last land! There, waiting patiently,
One day, I think, I'll feel a cool wind blowing,
See a slow light across the Stygian tide,
And hear the Dead about me stir, unknowing,
And tremble. And I shall know that you have died,
And watch you, a broad-browed and smiling dream,
Pass, light as ever, through the lightless host,
Quietly ponder, start, and sway, and gleam—
Most individual and bewildering ghost!—
And turn, and toss your brown delightful head
Amusedly, among the ancient Dead.“
— Rupert Brooke British poet 1887 - 1915
Sonnet http://books.google.com/books?id=SDgOAQAAMAAJ&q="Oh+Death+will+find+me+long+before+I+tire+Of+watching+you"&pg=PA47#v=onepage (1908-1910)
„Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
„I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
„In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met.“
— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891
„He was a tremendous puncher, with either hand. Knock you dead puncher. Knock you dead. And a terrific finisher.“
— Sugar Ray Robinson American boxer 1921 - 1989
Teddy Atlas on Robinson's punching power http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2441835652984416201&ei=sjpZS9eZGZPllQevwenkAw&q=sugar+ray+robinson#
About Sugar Ray sourced
„Once a man's thirty, he's already old,
He is indeed as good as dead.
It's best to kill him right away.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Act II, The Gothic Chamber
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
„I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph. ] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Dean and Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive.“
— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017
NBC interview (1987)
„We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.“
— John O'Donohue Irish writer, priest and philosopher 1956 - 2008
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
„A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.“
— Derek Prince British missionary 1915 - 2003
„The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.“
— Stokely Carmichael American activist 1941 - 1998
in (1967), as quoted in Andrew Sinclair's Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara
„Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.“
— Gaston Leroux, book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera