Quotes about the dead

A collection of quotes on the topic of dead.

„Making money ain't nothing exciting to me.... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.“

— Louis Armstrong American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901 - 1971
Ebony magazine, November 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=G98DAAAAMBAJ&q=%22making+money+ain't+nothing+exciting+to+me%22+%22You+might+be+able+to+buy+a+little+better+booze+than+some+wino+on+the+corner+But+you+get+sick+just+like+the+next+cat+and+when+you+die+you're+just+as+graveyard+dead+as+he+is%22&pg=PA138#v=onepage

Money, Cats

„We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.“

— Eduardo Galeano Uruguayan writer 1940 - 2015

Love, World, Wedding

„Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.“

— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)

„Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.“

— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

Life, Death, Music

„Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?“

— Christopher Paolini, Eldest

Help

„Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.“

— Elizabeth Gaskell novelist 1810 - 1865
Wives and Daughters, ch. 11

Love, Thinking

„He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:—
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!'
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine—it is not I.“

— Edwin Arnold British poet and journalist 1832 - 1904
After Death in Arabia.

Lie, Faith, Smile, Kiss

„Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Earth Song

War, Children, Cry

„Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Friendship, Learning

„When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.“

— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996

Boy, Sea

„Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.“

— Tom Waits American singer-songwriter and actor 1949

People, Feeling

„My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.“

— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972
"My Name Is" (Track 2).

Girl

„And Dr. Dre said … nothing, you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!“

— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972
"The Real Slim Shady"

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